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SPRUCE CREEK NO 1 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5200643 · 1 · SPRUCE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 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.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Which of its rights are out of priority?

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 1900-04-30 — 117th 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: MOOREHEAD DITCH (1895-06-06). Immediately behind: SPRUCE CREEK NO 3 DITCH (1900-07-15).

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
29437.183821900-04-301946-08-30 2.170.0 CIRR 120

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 111 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 358 AF — 322% of that, and 15th 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)
1999 88 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median 65 0.8
2000 104 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 66 0.8
2001 65 1st lowest of 15 · 59% of median 64 0.6
2002 76 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median 57 1.0
2003 169 12th lowest of 15 · 152% of median 68 1.4
2004 129 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median 82 1.0
2005 140 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 94 0.8
2006 134 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median 100 0.8
2007 65 1st lowest of 15 · 59% of median 68 0.5
2008 81 4th lowest of 15 · 73% of median 55 0.8
2009 111 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 57 1.0
2010 196 14th lowest of 15 · 177% of median 64 1.8
2011 178 13th lowest of 15 · 160% of median 65 1.4
2012 88 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median 50 1.2
2019 358 15th lowest of 15 · 322% of median 131 1.6

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.