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HAUNTED SPG DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5600553 · 1 · HAUNTED SPRING GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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 in line
Priority 1917-06-01 — 55th most senior of the 909 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: MASSEY DITCH (1914-05-22). Immediately behind: OUTLET DITCH (1917-06-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31579.24623 | 1917-06-01 | 1964-10-09 | 4.8 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 6 |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 20 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 268 | 13th lowest of 14 · 1340% of median | 304 | 5.0 |
| 1971 | 85 | 10th lowest of 14 · 425% of median | 34 | 2.0 |
| 1974 | 18 | 7th lowest of 14 · 90% of median | 7 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 22 | 8th lowest of 14 · 110% of median | 18 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 87 | 11th lowest of 14 · 435% of median | 26 | 2.0 |
| 1989 | 44 | 9th lowest of 14 · 220% of median | 12 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 274 | 14th lowest of 14 · 1370% of median | 47 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 182 | 12th lowest of 14 · 910% of median | 62 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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