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STEAMBOAT GARDENS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800884 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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 1902-05-02 — 256th 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: BAER DITCH (1902-05-02). Immediately behind: MEMORIAL PARK DIVERSION (1902-05-02).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19621.19114 | 1902-05-02 | 1903-09-22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFISDOMSTKWLD | 161-B |
| 19621.19236 | 1902-09-01 | 1903-09-22 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 163AA |
| 20349.19489 | 1903-05-12 | 1905-09-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFISDOMSTKWLD | 1672A, 167 |
| 33782.26084 | 1921-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 0.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 324 |
| 55882.51986 | 1992-05-01 | 2003-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | |
| 57516.0 | 2007-06-22 | 2007-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.6 | C | IRROTH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 480 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 150 AF — 31% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 595 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 126 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 606 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 192 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 574 | 9th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 171 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 480 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 156 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 418 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 160 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 739 | 12th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 153 | 8.0 |
| 2017 | 759 | 13th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 163 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 965 | 15th lowest of 15 · 201% of median | 168 | 9.1 |
| 2019 | 769 | 14th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 145 | 7.1 |
| 2020 | 271 | 5th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 144 | 3.8 |
| 2021 | 151 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 140 | 1.8 |
| 2022 | 230 | 4th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 148 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 144 | 1st lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 144 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 307 | 6th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 153 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 150 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 173 | 2.4 |
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