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SPITZIE DITCHES
Structure dossier · WDID 5600575 · 1 · GREEN RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:05 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 1960-03-10 — 81st 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: HOG LAKE DITCH (1960-03-02). Immediately behind: WILLIAM KARREN PIPELINE (1960-07-12).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40246.0 | 1960-03-10 | 1964-10-09 | 9.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 28 |
| 47847.44685 | 1972-05-05 | 1981-12-31 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRWLD |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
92CW0091, 81CW0008, CA1899.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
92CW0091 | 4 | 1981-12-31 | S |
81CW0008 | 1 | 1981-12-31 | S |
CA1899 | 1 | 1964-10-09 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 436 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 23 AF — 5% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 344 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 38 | 5.6 |
| 2010 | 194 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 35 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 421 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 50 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 1,190 | 13th lowest of 15 · 273% of median | 76 | 10.0 |
| 2013 | 932 | 11th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 55 | 10.0 |
| 2014 | 436 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 30 | 10.0 |
| 2015 | 238 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 18 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 674 | 10th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 42 | 10.0 |
| 2019 | 436 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 25 | 10.0 |
| 2020 | 555 | 9th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 35 | 10.0 |
| 2021 | 1,309 | 14th lowest of 15 · 300% of median | 72 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 337 | 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 26 | 10.0 |
| 2023 | 1,468 | 15th lowest of 15 · 337% of median | 83 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 1,031 | 12th lowest of 15 · 236% of median | 65 | 10.0 |
| 2025 | 23 | 1st lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 18 | 2.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3907 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 33% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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