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FOUR CREEK DITCH HGT 2
Structure dossier · WDID 5301047 · 1 · SWEETWATER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:09 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 1906-07-26 — 187th 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: PERRY HGT NO 8 (1906-07-26). Immediately behind: FOUR CREEK DITCH HGT 3 (1906-07-26).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20660.0 | 1906-07-26 | 1907-12-09 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 205 |
| 33023.30815 | 1934-05-15 | 1956-02-07 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 336 |
| 37080.0 | 1951-07-10 | 1956-02-07 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 369 |
| 38143.0 | 1954-06-07 | 1956-02-07 | 0.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 406 |
| 51134.44925 | 1972-12-31 | 1990-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRROTH |
Legal record & documents
15 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
09CW0194, 91CW0257, CA1123, 95CW0185, 06CW0070, 01CW0350.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
09CW0194 | 2 | 2009-12-31 | S |
91CW0257 | 2 | 1990-12-31 | S |
CA1123 | 3 | 1956-02-07 | S |
95CW0185 | 6 | 1956-02-07 | S |
06CW0070 | 1 | 1956-02-07 | S |
01CW0350 | 1 | 1907-12-09 | 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 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 182 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 153 AF — 84% of that, and 6th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 610 | 13th lowest of 14 · 334% of median | 105 | 4.5 |
| 1986 | 625 | 14th lowest of 14 · 342% of median | 149 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 323 | 10th lowest of 14 · 177% of median | 75 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 431 | 12th lowest of 14 · 236% of median | 138 | 2.0 |
| 1989 | 295 | 9th lowest of 14 · 162% of median | 83 | 2.0 |
| 1990 | 95 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 52% of median | 95 | 0.6 |
| 1991 | 88 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 48% of median | 141 | 0.5 |
| 1993 | 117 | 4th lowest of 14 · 64% of median | 58 | 1.5 |
| 1994 | 198 | 8th lowest of 14 · 108% of median | 134 | 0.8 |
| 2010 | 83 | 1st lowest of 14 · 46% of median | 95 | 1.9 |
| 2011 | 372 | 11th lowest of 14 · 204% of median | 147 | 1.9 |
| 2012 | 167 | 7th lowest of 14 · 92% of median | 140 | 0.8 |
| 2013 | 135 | 5th lowest of 14 · 74% of median | 97 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 153 | 6th lowest of 14 · 84% of median | 71 | 1.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 14 recorded years (-10 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.049).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1528 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 21% of the irrigation seasons in 1985-2018 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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