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SPRUCE CREEK NO 2 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5200644 · 1 · SPRUCE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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 1901-09-04 — 120th 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: SPRUCE CREEK NO 4 DITCH (1901-04-19). Immediately behind: GIBSON NO 1 DITCH (1905-04-12).

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
29437.188741901-09-041946-08-30 0.820.0 CIRR 125

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 102 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 98 AF — 96% of that, and 7th 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)
1998 129 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 67 1.0
1999 79 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 65 0.6
2000 112 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 66 0.9
2001 79 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 64 0.7
2002 69 2nd lowest of 15 · 68% of median 36 1.0
2003 133 13th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 68 1.0
2004 132 12th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 82 1.0
2005 140 14th lowest of 15 · 137% of median 94 0.8
2006 155 15th lowest of 15 · 152% of median 100 0.9
2007 82 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 68 0.6
2008 52 1st lowest of 15 · 51% of median 55 0.5
2009 77 3rd lowest of 15 · 76% of median 57 0.8
2010 103 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 65 0.8
2011 102 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 65 0.9
2019 98 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 83 0.6

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