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CREEK AND NEWMAN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7000530 · 1 · ROAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:51 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1884-11-15 — 15th most senior of the 519 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: ROAN CREEK NO 3 DITCH (1884-10-13). Immediately behind: COTTONWOOD DITCH (1885-03-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12738.0 | 1884-11-15 | 1889-05-11 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 34 |
| 13280.0 | 1886-05-11 | 1889-05-11 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 70 |
| 13959.0 | 1888-03-20 | 1889-05-11 | 2.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 129 |
| 27132.27059 | 1924-02-01 | 1937-01-11 | 21.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 181OO |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,286 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 882 AF — 69% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,589 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 110 | 11.0 |
| 2012 | 1,447 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 172 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 269 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 102 | 5.4 |
| 2014 | 917 | 7th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 164 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 1,286 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 162 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 1,414 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 169 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 2,462 | 15th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 143 | 9.1 |
| 2018 | 707 | 5th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 92 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 2,201 | 14th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 166 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 682 | 4th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 65 | 8.9 |
| 2021 | 238 | 1st lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 50 | 2.7 |
| 2022 | 1,730 | 13th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 160 | 7.2 |
| 2023 | 1,650 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 104 | 9.1 |
| 2024 | 649 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 76 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 882 | 6th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 69 | 7.2 |
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