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CASCADE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6200897 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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.
Which of its rights get 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 1960-08-01 — 889th 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: CADWELL DITCH (1960-06-01). Immediately behind: FOUGNIER PIPELINE (1971-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44925.4039 | 1960-08-01 | 1973-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 38 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 3 AF — 8% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 17 | 6th lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 106 | 0.2 |
| 2010 | 22 | 7th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 80 | 0.2 |
| 2011 | 38 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 66 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 74 | 12th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 129 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 92 | 13th lowest of 15 · 242% of median | 100 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 55 | 10th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 45 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 242 | 14th lowest of 15 · 637% of median | 93 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 458 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1205% of median | 82 | 2.8 |
| 2021 | 4 | 5th lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 23 | 0.1 |
| 2023 | 46 | 9th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 118 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 68 | 11th lowest of 15 · 179% of median | 70 | 0.8 |
| 2025 | 3 | 4th lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 54 | 0.0 |
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