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P B SPRING DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5200698 · 1 · SHEEPHORN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:22 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 1910-12-31 — 346th 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: HINTON DITCH (1888-08-01). Immediately behind: BOLGER NO 1 SPRING (1973-07-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46020.22279 | 1910-12-31 | 1976-12-31 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 20 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 3 AF — 15% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| Year | Diverted (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 record | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 14 | 5th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 30 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 8 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 41 | 0.1 |
| 2004 | 14 | 5th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 70 | 0.1 |
| 2005 | 15 | 7th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 78 | 0.1 |
| 2006 | 11 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 56 | 0.1 |
| 2007 | 11 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 57 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 33 | 10th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 44 | 0.5 |
| 2009 | 62 | 14th lowest of 15 · 310% of median | 64 | 0.5 |
| 2010 | 58 | 12th lowest of 15 · 290% of median | 76 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 52 | 11th lowest of 15 · 260% of median | 65 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 20 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 76 | 0.2 |
| 2013 | 61 | 13th lowest of 15 · 305% of median | 66 | 0.5 |
| 2015 | 83 | 15th lowest of 15 · 415% of median | 120 | 0.3 |
| 2017 | 26 | 9th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 75 | 0.3 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1st lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 77 | 0.0 |
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