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Structure dossier · WDID 6000596 · 1 · DRY CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 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 1913-07-21 — 714th 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: DRY CREEK DITCH NO 1 (1913-07-21). Immediately behind: GARBER NO 1 DITCH (1913-07-21).

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
24379.232121913-07-211920-09-16 1.00.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 182 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 67 AF — 37% of that, and 2nd 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)
1987 230 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 102 2.0
1988 195 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 75 2.6
1989 165 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 130 1.0
1990 39 1st lowest of 15 · 21% of median 41 0.5
1991 301 14th lowest of 15 · 165% of median 91 3.1
1992 241 12th lowest of 15 · 132% of median 111 1.5
1993 248 13th lowest of 15 · 136% of median 135 1.5
1994 182 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 93 1.5
1995 304 15th lowest of 15 · 167% of median 93 2.0
1996 114 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median 56 1.8
1997 224 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median 112 1.5
1998 130 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median 51 1.8
1999 167 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 105 1.5
2000 70 3rd lowest of 15 · 38% of median 48 1.5
2001 67 2nd lowest of 15 · 37% of median 64 1.0

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