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DWYER CREEK DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 6200583 · 1 · LAKE FORK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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 1882-11-10 — 28th most senior of the 1980 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: SOUTH BEAVER CREEK DITCH (1882-07-01). Immediately behind: MCMINN DITCH (1883-03-31).

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
12002.01882-11-101904-03-28 0.920.0 CIRR 32

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 25 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 14 AF — 56% of that, and 6th 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)
2009 42 10th lowest of 15 · 168% of median 82 0.9
2010 2 3rd lowest of 15 · 8% of median 55 0.0
2011 2 3rd lowest of 15 · 8% of median 68 0.0
2012 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2014 225 15th lowest of 15 · 900% of median 187 1.8
2015 136 14th lowest of 15 · 544% of median 87 0.9
2017 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 5 0.0
2018 16 7th lowest of 15 · 64% of median 56 0.2
2019 101 12th lowest of 15 · 404% of median 53 1.0
2020 101 12th lowest of 15 · 404% of median 70 0.8
2021 25 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 52 0.2
2022 6 5th lowest of 15 · 24% of median 103 0.0
2023 33 9th lowest of 15 · 132% of median 147 0.2
2024 54 11th lowest of 15 · 216% of median 184 0.3
2025 14 6th lowest of 15 · 56% of median 51 0.2

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.