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PINE GROVE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5700578 · 1 · TROUT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:51 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 1889-05-01 — 59th most senior of the 1003 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: SPRUCE HILL DITCH ALT PT (1894-05-11). Immediately behind: SAGE CREEK RES OUTLET (1897-06-19).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17071.14366 | 1889-05-01 | 1897-09-22 | 1.68 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 44 |
| 34139.14366 | 1889-05-01 | 1948-07-12 | 2.3 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 182 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 488 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 385 AF — 79% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 568 | 10th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 47 | 6.2 |
| 2012 | 1,365 | 15th lowest of 15 · 280% of median | 178 | 5.3 |
| 2013 | 592 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 79 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 622 | 13th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 63 | 6.4 |
| 2015 | 494 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 48 | 6.8 |
| 2016 | 252 | 1st lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 41 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 431 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 50 | 5.1 |
| 2018 | 805 | 14th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 152 | 6.6 |
| 2019 | 363 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 48 | 5.6 |
| 2020 | 445 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 67 | 5.4 |
| 2021 | 436 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 71 | 6.6 |
| 2022 | 410 | 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 64 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 488 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 56 | 5.8 |
| 2024 | 593 | 12th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 59 | 6.1 |
| 2025 | 385 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 63 | 6.2 |
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