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FOUR CREEK DITCH HGT 3

Structure dossier · WDID 5301048 · 1 · SWEETWATER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:18 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 — 188th 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: FOUR CREEK DITCH HGT 2 (1906-07-26). Immediately behind: FOUR CREEK DITCH HGT 4 (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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
20660.01906-07-261907-12-09 0.00.0 CIRR 205
33023.308151934-05-151956-02-07 0.50.0 CIRR 336
37080.01951-07-101956-02-07 1.50.0 CIRR 369
38143.01954-06-071956-02-07 0.50.0 CIRR 406
51134.449251972-12-311990-12-31 0.00.0 CIRROTH

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 338 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2020, came in at 726 AF — 215% of that, and 12th 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 358 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 208 1.8
1987 152 4th lowest of 15 · 45% of median 43 2.5
1988 338 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 138 2.0
1989 235 7th lowest of 15 · 70% of median 83 2.0
1990 108 2nd lowest of 15 · 32% of median 127 0.6
1991 109 3rd lowest of 15 · 32% of median 137 0.5
1993 87 1st lowest of 15 · 26% of median 58 1.0
1994 198 6th lowest of 15 · 59% of median 134 0.8
2010 441 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 165 2.7
2011 747 13th lowest of 15 · 221% of median 148 3.1
2012 421 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median 160 1.9
2013 182 5th lowest of 15 · 54% of median 97 1.2
2018 841 14th lowest of 15 · 249% of median 149 3.2
2019 858 15th lowest of 15 · 254% of median 110 4.6
2020 726 12th lowest of 15 · 215% of median 155 4.5

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