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SPRING CREEK DITCH NO 1

Structure dossier · WDID 6000767 · 1 · TABEGUACHE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1905-07-30 — 706th 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: ROSS GWIN DITCH NO 2 (1900-07-17). Immediately behind: SPRING CREEK DITCH NO 2 (1905-07-30).

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
23681.202991905-07-301916-09-30 1.00.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 259 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 63 AF — 24% 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 191 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 81 1.5
1988 416 11th lowest of 15 · 161% of median 99 3.0
1989 215 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 142 1.5
1990 44 1st lowest of 15 · 17% of median 28 1.0
1991 86 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median 50 1.0
1992 434 12th lowest of 15 · 168% of median 121 2.5
1993 334 9th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 83 3.0
1994 382 10th lowest of 15 · 148% of median 107 3.2
1995 719 15th lowest of 15 · 278% of median 175 3.2
1996 707 14th lowest of 15 · 273% of median 174 3.2
1997 644 13th lowest of 15 · 249% of median 163 4.0
1998 236 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 71 2.8
1999 259 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 173 1.5
2000 218 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 199 2.3
2001 63 2nd lowest of 15 · 24% of median 44 1.3

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