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DONNELL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6200935 · 1 · PARK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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 in line
Priority 1904-11-05 — 245th 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: FISH CREEK RES NO 2 (1904-07-06). Immediately behind: MINERAL CREEK NO 2 D (1905-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27585.20032 | 1904-11-05 | 1941-04-21 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 256 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 21 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 160 AF — 762% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 16 | 7th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 65 | 0.3 |
| 2002 | 21 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 68 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 8 | 6th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 71 | 0.1 |
| 2004 | 24 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 122 | 0.2 |
| 2005 | 59 | 12th lowest of 15 · 281% of median | 141 | 0.4 |
| 2006 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 53 | 0.1 |
| 2007 | 2 | 1st lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 24 | 0.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | 10th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 156 | 0.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | 5th lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 172 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4th lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 73 | 0.0 |
| 2011 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 87 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 45 | 11th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 134 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 104 | 13th lowest of 15 · 495% of median | 174 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 256 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1219% of median | 201 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 160 | 14th lowest of 15 · 762% of median | 112 | 1.5 |
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