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SPRING CR IRG DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900679 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:57 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 1891-06-01 — 505th 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: MCDONOUGH ANTELOPE CR 1 (1891-05-14). Immediately behind: TAYLOR PIPELINE (1891-06-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20710.15127 | 1891-06-01 | 1921-10-25 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 186 |
| 30667.11854 | 1882-06-15 | 1941-04-29 | 33.2 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 303 |
| 57708.57678 | 2007-12-01 | 2008-12-31 | 30.0 | 0.0 | C | RECFIS |
Legal record & documents
9 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
08CW0180, CA2021, 84CW0237, CA1934, CA1635.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
08CW0180 | 1 | 2008-12-31 | S |
CA2021 | 1 | 1941-04-29 | S |
84CW0237 | 4 | 1941-04-29 | S |
CA1934 | 2 | 1932-04-28 | S |
CA1635 | 1 | 1921-10-25 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 10,352 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 10,628 AF — 103% of that, and 12th 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 | 12,375 | 15th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 171 | 45.6 |
| 2012 | 8,757 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 175 | 38.1 |
| 2013 | 10,352 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 178 | 44.3 |
| 2014 | 12,186 | 14th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 164 | 43.0 |
| 2015 | 9,432 | 4th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 191 | 46.0 |
| 2016 | 10,440 | 10th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 167 | 46.8 |
| 2017 | 9,509 | 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 162 | 43.0 |
| 2018 | 10,545 | 11th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 185 | 43.0 |
| 2019 | 9,642 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 171 | 39.3 |
| 2020 | 10,659 | 13th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 197 | 43.4 |
| 2021 | 9,526 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 187 | 44.3 |
| 2022 | 9,150 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 155 | 40.9 |
| 2023 | 10,352 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 158 | 45.6 |
| 2024 | 8,378 | 1st lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 109 | 49.0 |
| 2025 | 10,628 | 12th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 186 | 38.9 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 7899 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 73% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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