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FIELDS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6300523 · 1 · WEST CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1934-08-15 — 238th most senior of the 533 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: ROCKY RIDGE DITCH (1933-05-01). Immediately behind: GATEWAY WEST SIDE DITCH (1936-06-01).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30907.0 | 1934-08-15 | 1939-02-11 | 0.26 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 100, 101 |
| 32547.0 | 1939-02-10 | 1939-02-11 | 0.52 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 58804.30907 | 1934-08-15 | 2011-12-31 | 0.78 | 0.0 | C | STK | |
| 59153.0 | 2011-12-15 | 2011-12-31 | 0.0 | 10.0 | C | PWR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 522 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 477 AF — 91% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 256 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 118 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 353 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 140 | 1.8 |
| 2013 | 407 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 244 | 1.6 |
| 2014 | 555 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 295 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 207 | 1st lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 148 | 2.3 |
| 2016 | 492 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 255 | 1.8 |
| 2017 | 697 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 284 | 2.3 |
| 2018 | 375 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 220 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 1,022 | 13th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 365 | 2.2 |
| 2020 | 522 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 366 | 2.1 |
| 2021 | 971 | 12th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 340 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 774 | 11th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 286 | 2.1 |
| 2023 | 1,062 | 14th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 365 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 1,145 | 15th lowest of 15 · 219% of median | 366 | 3.4 |
| 2025 | 477 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 276 | 1.8 |
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