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POPPER DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 5600568 · 1 · K CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 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 1885-07-01 — 31st 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: BEAVER DITCH (1893-04-01). Immediately behind: DOUGLAS MOUNTAIN SPRINGS DITCH (1887-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16336.12966 | 1885-07-01 | 1912-08-14 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 11 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 89 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 157 | 11th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 84 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 155 | 10th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 83 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 149 | 9th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 80 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 89 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 496 | 14th lowest of 15 · 557% of median | 104 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 256 | 12th lowest of 15 · 288% of median | 105 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 590 | 15th lowest of 15 · 663% of median | 123 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 258 | 13th lowest of 15 · 290% of median | 68 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 1 | 6th lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 25 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 43 | 0.0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 32 | 7th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 20 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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