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PRIEST DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5800830 · 1 · PRIEST CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:22 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 1891-08-13 — 227th 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: LAFON DITCH ALT PT 2 (1888-04-15). Immediately behind: SCHAFFNIT DITCH (1895-09-01).

Decreed rights (3)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
18529.1521891-08-131901-09-16 1.00.0 CIRRMUNCOMRECFISDOM 112
22073.152021891-08-151910-06-09 1.40.0 CIRR 112A
22542.224311911-06-011911-09-22 0.830.0 CIRR 211

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 152 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 106 AF — 70% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2009 60 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median 38 1.0
2010 92 3rd lowest of 15 · 60% of median 41 1.5
2011 111 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median 29 2.0
2012 256 13th lowest of 15 · 168% of median 154 2.0
2013 139 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 56 2.0
2015 323 14th lowest of 15 · 212% of median 98 2.0
2017 37 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median 70 0.6
2018 145 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 110 1.5
2019 241 12th lowest of 15 · 159% of median 52 2.4
2020 161 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 132 2.4
2021 152 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 172 1.3
2022 405 15th lowest of 15 · 266% of median 144 3.8
2023 175 11th lowest of 15 · 115% of median 148 2.2
2024 155 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 158 1.7
2025 106 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median 149 1.2

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.