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LAKE CK DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5400540 · 1 · LAKE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1903-09-03 — 30th most senior of the 724 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: HANCOCK DITCH (1903-04-25). Immediately behind: LOST PARK CG (1905-06-12).

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
19990.196031903-09-031905-09-26 3.60.0 CIRR 32

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 137 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 68 AF — 50% of that, and 5th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

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 recordReleased (AF)Days recordedPeak (cfs)
2008 134 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median — 55 2.1
2009 177 9th lowest of 15 · 129% of median — 33 3.7
2010 250 12th lowest of 15 · 182% of median — 36 4.0
2011 126 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median — 60 2.8
2012 313 13th lowest of 15 · 228% of median — 71 2.8
2013 228 11th lowest of 15 · 166% of median — 48 3.4
2014 505 14th lowest of 15 · 369% of median — 55 8.2
2015 137 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median — 31 2.6
2016 840 15th lowest of 15 · 613% of median — 96 6.0
2018 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median — 2 0.0
2020 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median — 1 0.0
2021 6 4th lowest of 15 · 4% of median — 15 0.2
2022 208 10th lowest of 15 · 152% of median — 49 3.0
2023 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median — 1 0.0
2024 68 5th lowest of 15 · 50% of median — 32 1.1

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