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CEMENT CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900537 · 1 · CEMENT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:13 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1886-06-01 — 116th most senior of the 2360 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: AHRENS DITCH (1886-06-01). Immediately behind: BOURNE DITCH (1886-06-23).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13301.0 | 1886-06-01 | 1906-09-14 | 6.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 56 |
| 30667.13301 | 1886-06-01 | 1941-04-29 | 19.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 320 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 4,437 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 3,458 AF — 78% 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 | 4,618 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 125 | 25.8 |
| 2012 | 2,651 | 1st lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 171 | 21.7 |
| 2013 | 4,846 | 13th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 153 | 23.6 |
| 2014 | 6,564 | 15th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 164 | 23.8 |
| 2015 | 3,091 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 134 | 21.9 |
| 2016 | 4,492 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 165 | 19.2 |
| 2017 | 4,423 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 152 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 3,919 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 162 | 22.6 |
| 2019 | 5,305 | 14th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 161 | 22.6 |
| 2020 | 4,437 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 164 | 20.5 |
| 2021 | 3,980 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 179 | 19.2 |
| 2022 | 4,649 | 11th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 176 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 4,693 | 12th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 161 | 21.5 |
| 2024 | 3,693 | 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 156 | 16.0 |
| 2025 | 3,458 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 155 | 20.3 |
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