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GATES SAVAGE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800657 · 1 · RENFRO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1890-06-20 — 209th most senior of the 3097 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: MURPHY DITCH ALT PT 2 (1895-10-31). Immediately behind: GATES WILLIAMS DITCH (1890-06-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18159.14781 | 1890-06-20 | 1899-09-29 | 1.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 101A |
| 33782.25719 | 1920-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 2.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 322L |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 192 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 299 AF — 156% of that, and 10th 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 | 155 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 28 | 3.0 |
| 2010 | 119 | 4th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 31 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 387 | 12th lowest of 15 · 202% of median | 140 | 2.7 |
| 2014 | 114 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 103 | 0.6 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 190 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 86 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 330 | 11th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 147 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 442 | 13th lowest of 15 · 230% of median | 114 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 68 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 32 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 261 | 9th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 120 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 619 | 15th lowest of 15 · 322% of median | 99 | 4.3 |
| 2022 | 586 | 14th lowest of 15 · 305% of median | 142 | 3.2 |
| 2023 | 143 | 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 68 | 2.3 |
| 2024 | 192 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 158 | 2.3 |
| 2025 | 299 | 10th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 179 | 2.8 |
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