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HAYES CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6500507 · 1 · HAYES CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:07 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 1888-03-01 — 2nd most senior of the 112 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: O'DONNELL DITCH LEFT IN STREAM (1887-06-01). Immediately behind: BAR ELEVEN NO 2 DITCH (1888-04-26).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13940.0 | 1888-03-01 | 1912-07-03 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA0872.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA0872 | 1 | 1912-07-03 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 192 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 225 AF — 117% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 52 | 1st lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 29 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 65 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 26 | 1.6 |
| 2006 | 85 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 36 | 1.5 |
| 2007 | 113 | 4th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 28 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 127 | 5th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 44 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 247 | 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 54 | 3.6 |
| 2010 | 309 | 13th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 94 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 372 | 14th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 97 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 498 | 15th lowest of 15 · 259% of median | 155 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 192 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 72 | 2.7 |
| 2014 | 167 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 82 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 307 | 12th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 100 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 238 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 82 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 182 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 70 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 225 | 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 58 | 4.1 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 34.3% of a median season / 3.3% dry-year.
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+14 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.029).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 6505 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 46% of the irrigation seasons in 1952-2018 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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