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PRICE CREEK DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5900721 · 1 · OHIO CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:58 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 1885-04-30 — 109th 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: LIGHTLEY D & LINTON ENLT (1885-04-30). Immediately behind: PRICE CREEK DITCH NO 2 (1885-04-30).

Decreed rights (1)

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
12904.01885-04-301906-09-14 2.00.0 CIRR 52

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 78 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 73 AF — 94% of that, and 7th 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)
2011 149 11th lowest of 15 · 191% of median 42 2.0
2012 7 1st lowest of 15 · 9% of median 40 0.1
2013 67 4th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 86 0.6
2014 216 12th lowest of 15 · 277% of median 62 1.9
2015 71 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 34 1.2
2016 298 15th lowest of 15 · 382% of median 67 4.0
2017 268 13th lowest of 15 · 344% of median 91 3.3
2018 9 2nd lowest of 15 · 12% of median 33 0.2
2019 295 14th lowest of 15 · 378% of median 120 2.2
2020 98 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 64 1.0
2021 11 3rd lowest of 15 · 14% of median 35 0.2
2022 78 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 90 0.8
2023 82 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 89 0.8
2024 72 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 98 0.6
2025 73 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 155 0.3

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.