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RIEKE SEEP DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6400638 · 1 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 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 2004-03-31 — 1866th most senior of the 2052 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: GUENZI RECHARGE WL R13 (2003-04-23). Immediately behind: STERLING ETHANOL WL 1 (2005-02-07).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56613.56338 | 2004-03-31 | 2005-12-31 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | AUG |
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,294 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 2,177 AF — 168% of that, and 8th lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 163 | 1st lowest of 8 · 13% of median | 61 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 1,603 | 6th lowest of 8 · 124% of median | 304 | 18.2 |
| 2019 | 506 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 39% of median | 61 | 6.8 |
| 2020 | 1,171 | 4th lowest of 8 · 90% of median | 277 | 9.0 |
| 2021 | 1,811 | 7th lowest of 8 · 140% of median | 355 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 993 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 77% of median | 254 | 13.2 |
| 2023 | 1,416 | 5th lowest of 8 · 110% of median | 306 | 10.4 |
| 2024 | 2,177 | 8th lowest of 8 · 168% of median | 305 | 21.8 |
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