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STEALEY OWL CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6800749 · 1 · COW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1884-05-20 — 111th 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: OWL CREEK DITCH (1884-05-20). Immediately behind: UPPER OWL CREEK DITCH (1884-05-20).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12559.0 | 1884-05-20 | 1897-05-15 | 2.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 29554.19487 | 1903-05-10 | 1942-05-11 | 2.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 67 |
| 40646.28428 | 1927-11-01 | 1971-09-13 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | 15 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 569 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 346 AF — 61% of that, and 4th 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 | 552 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 150 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 817 | 13th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 211 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 785 | 12th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 142 | 4.1 |
| 2014 | 501 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 122 | 6.4 |
| 2015 | 841 | 15th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 105 | 8.9 |
| 2016 | 834 | 14th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 134 | 5.7 |
| 2017 | 624 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 135 | 5.2 |
| 2018 | 201 | 1st lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 69 | 2.8 |
| 2019 | 665 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 124 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 461 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 119 | 3.3 |
| 2021 | 643 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 151 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 308 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 100 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 569 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 102 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 322 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 56 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 346 | 4th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 90 | 3.6 |
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