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EAGLE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6000583 · 1 · LEOPARD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:14 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.
Will it be 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 1888-06-05 — 81st most senior of the 2893 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: GURLEY RESERVOIR (1888-05-30). Immediately behind: WILLOW CREEK DITCH (1888-06-28).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14036.0 | 1888-06-05 | 1911-06-03 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 16 |
| 14842.0 | 1890-08-20 | 1911-06-03 | 3.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 39 |
| 40348.0 | 1960-06-20 | 1967-01-16 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 508 |
| 44559.14842 | 1890-08-20 | 1972-12-31 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 318 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 133 AF — 42% 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 | 392 | 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 107 | 4.8 |
| 2011 | 571 | 15th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 210 | 3.8 |
| 2012 | 98 | 1st lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 61 | 1.9 |
| 2013 | 278 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 155 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 375 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 134 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 318 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 179 | 1.7 |
| 2016 | 278 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 175 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 420 | 12th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 171 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 153 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 148 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 557 | 14th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 120 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 260 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 152 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 215 | 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 140 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 335 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 120 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 445 | 13th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 154 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 133 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 82 | 2.2 |
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.