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LEW CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6800637 · 1 · COW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 1882-06-01 — 95th most senior of the 1293 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: LANDON PUMPING PLANT (1882-06-01). Immediately behind: RIDGWAY DITCH (1882-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11840.0 | 1882-06-01 | 1897-05-15 | 3.125 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 107 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 99 AF — 92% 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 | 72 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 72 | 1.2 |
| 2012 | 15 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 23 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 116 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 50 | 1.8 |
| 2014 | 103 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 68 | 4.6 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 15 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 435 | 15th lowest of 15 · 406% of median | 108 | 6.3 |
| 2017 | 180 | 12th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 59 | 2.2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 314 | 14th lowest of 15 · 294% of median | 96 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 152 | 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 31 | 3.6 |
| 2021 | 107 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 42 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 260 | 13th lowest of 15 · 243% of median | 32 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 58 | 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 46 | 0.8 |
| 2024 | 123 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 46 | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 99 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 36 | 2.0 |
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