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DEEMS PIPELINE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300548 · 1 · SWEETWATER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:45 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1954-05-17 — 364th most senior of the 1231 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: TRANSFER PL SPRING (1954-02-06). Immediately behind: JACKSON FISH POND DITCH (1954-06-07).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38122.0 | 1954-05-17 | 1956-02-07 | 0.08 | 0.0 | C | DOM | 403 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA1123.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1123 | 3 | 1956-02-07 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 33 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1987, came in at 10 AF — 30% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 4 | 1st lowest of 12 · 12% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 70 | 8th lowest of 12 · 212% of median | 365 | 0.4 |
| 1976 | 242 | 11th lowest of 12 · 733% of median | 305 | 0.4 |
| 1977 | 24 | 5th lowest of 12 · 73% of median | 275 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 21 | 4th lowest of 12 · 64% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 42 | 7th lowest of 12 · 127% of median | 61 | 0.3 |
| 1980 | 211 | 10th lowest of 12 · 639% of median | 304 | 0.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 15% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 24 | 5th lowest of 12 · 73% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 74 | 9th lowest of 12 · 224% of median | 275 | 0.4 |
| 1986 | 271 | 12th lowest of 12 · 821% of median | 304 | 0.4 |
| 1987 | 10 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 30% of median | 118 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 12 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2737 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-1987 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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