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KREMMLING SHEEP CREEK DITCH HGT 2

Structure dossier · WDID 5300671 · 1 · SHEEP CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:23 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 1940-09-15 — 425th 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: KREMMLING SHEEP CREEK DITCH HGT 3 (1939-07-12). Immediately behind: RUSSELL NO 2 SPRING (1945-06-01).

Decreed rights (2)

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
41199.33131940-09-151967-09-13 3.50.0 CSTOIRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOMPWR 465
55152.551332000-12-122001-12-31 0.00.0 CAUG

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 447 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 309 AF — 69% of that, and 3rd 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)
1986 1,123 14th lowest of 15 · 251% of median 165 3.8
1996 404 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 58 8.0
2003 412 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 62 11.3
2005 118 2nd lowest of 15 · 26% of median 18 3.5
2010 84 1st lowest of 15 · 19% of median 78 2.0
2015 407 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 47 9.5
2016 493 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 45 10.2
2017 673 12th lowest of 15 · 151% of median 78 9.1
2018 383 4th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 74 6.0
2019 1,228 15th lowest of 15 · 275% of median 138 12.4
2020 555 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 56 17.0
2021 492 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 35 13.1
2022 447 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 63 15.0
2023 813 13th lowest of 15 · 182% of median 71 10.8
2024 309 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median 50 4.4

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