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SPRING CREEK DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5300804 · 1 · IRRAWADDY CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:20 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 1911-08-11 — 230th 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: PARK DITCH (1911-08-01). Immediately behind: RIDGE DITCH (1914-06-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
23324.225021911-08-111915-06-07 0.20.0 CIRR 246

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 36 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 16 AF — 44% of that, and 5th 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)
1993 15 4th lowest of 15 · 42% of median 80 0.1
1994 2 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median 13 0.1
1995 27 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median 69 0.2
1996 76 13th lowest of 15 · 211% of median 68 0.8
1997 63 12th lowest of 15 · 175% of median 65 0.5
1998 60 11th lowest of 15 · 167% of median 61 0.5
2000 36 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 37 0.5
2001 51 10th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 52 0.5
2016 94 14th lowest of 15 · 261% of median 91 0.6
2017 50 9th lowest of 15 · 139% of median 181 0.3
2018 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 56 0.0
2019 107 15th lowest of 15 · 297% of median 134 0.7
2020 4 3rd lowest of 15 · 11% of median 28 0.1
2023 28 7th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 67 0.3
2024 16 5th lowest of 15 · 44% of median 150 0.1

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