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NELSON SPRINGS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6000715 · 1 · NATURITA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:16 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 1908-04-01 — 885th 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: BLUE JAY SPRING DITCH (1907-06-05). Immediately behind: WERRY DITCH (1908-05-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32811.21275 | 1908-04-01 | 1952-07-10 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 367 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 36 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 28 AF — 78% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 40 | 14th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 184 | 0.2 |
| 1987 | 37 | 12th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 188 | 0.1 |
| 1988 | 36 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 160 | 0.2 |
| 1989 | 34 | 5th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 176 | 0.1 |
| 1990 | 32 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 163 | 0.1 |
| 1991 | 38 | 13th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 193 | 0.1 |
| 1992 | 36 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 184 | 0.1 |
| 1993 | 29 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 170 | 0.1 |
| 1994 | 40 | 14th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 203 | 0.1 |
| 1995 | 36 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 182 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | 35 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 213 | 0.1 |
| 1997 | 33 | 4th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 179 | 0.1 |
| 1998 | 36 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 184 | 0.1 |
| 1999 | 35 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 179 | 0.1 |
| 2000 | 28 | 1st lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 184 | 0.1 |
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