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LAVA CREEK NO 2 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5200588 · 1 · PINEY RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:38 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

Which of its rights get called out?

Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1905-05-16 — 123rd most senior of the 562 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..

Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: GIBSON NO 2 DITCH (1905-04-25). Immediately behind: NORTH GOODSON DITCH HDG1 (1905-06-01).

Decreed rights (1)

Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
29437.202241905-05-161946-08-30 3.160.0 CIRR 133

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 210 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 156 AF — 74% of that, and 5th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.)Compared with its own recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1994 403 15th lowest of 15 · 192% of median 89 3.2
1995 330 12th lowest of 15 · 157% of median 72 3.2
1996 393 14th lowest of 15 · 187% of median 81 3.1
1997 386 13th lowest of 15 · 184% of median 56 3.5
1998 210 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 54 2.7
1999 116 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median 36 2.0
2000 117 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median 52 1.3
2001 211 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 97 1.7
2003 306 11th lowest of 15 · 146% of median 106 1.5
2004 199 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 106 1.2
2017 191 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 71 1.5
2018 226 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 156 2.1
2019 82 1st lowest of 15 · 39% of median 46 1.2
2021 90 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median 62 1.0
2023 156 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 155 0.6

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.