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PRICE WINTER DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5200616 · 1 · POSEY CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:33 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 1919-06-13 — 162nd 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: PRICE GREENHORN D HDG 2 (1919-05-29). Immediately behind: CABIN DITCH (1919-07-01).

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
29437.253651919-06-131946-08-30 6.350.0 CIRR 166

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 140 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 140 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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)
1995 298 13th lowest of 15 · 213% of median 88 2.0
1996 432 14th lowest of 15 · 309% of median 129 2.0
1997 511 15th lowest of 15 · 365% of median 161 2.0
1998 198 11th lowest of 15 · 141% of median 58 2.0
1999 173 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 59 1.5
2000 111 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median 57 1.0
2001 97 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median 64 1.0
2002 109 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 56 1.0
2003 243 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median 123 1.5
2015 26 2nd lowest of 15 · 19% of median 23 0.6
2016 161 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median 107 1.2
2017 111 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median 98 0.7
2018 5 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median 54 0.1
2019 76 3rd lowest of 15 · 54% of median 72 0.7
2023 140 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 108 1.0

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.