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FITZPATRICK SPRING DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200618 · 1 · PLATEAU CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:49 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
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 1901-04-01 — 151st most senior of the 2166 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: CRAIG STEWART DITCH (1900-10-01). Immediately behind: MOW CANON SPRINGS D & PL (1903-06-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749.18718 | 1901-04-01 | 1905-10-14 | 0.09 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 40013.22431 | 1911-06-01 | 1972-04-13 | 0.21 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 971 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA13368, CA1222.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA13368 | 1 | 1972-04-13 | S |
CA1222 | 1 | 1905-10-14 | S |
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 36 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 36 AF — 100% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 35 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 78 | 0.3 |
| 2005 | 81 | 13th lowest of 15 · 225% of median | 199 | 0.3 |
| 2006 | 63 | 11th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 154 | 0.3 |
| 2007 | 34 | 1st lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 102 | 0.2 |
| 2008 | 322 | 15th lowest of 15 · 894% of median | 184 | 1.3 |
| 2009 | 79 | 12th lowest of 15 · 219% of median | 195 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 99 | 0.3 |
| 2014 | 105 | 14th lowest of 15 · 292% of median | 201 | 0.3 |
| 2015 | 46 | 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 140 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 99 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 97 | 0.3 |
| 2020 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 97 | 0.3 |
| 2021 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 97 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 44 | 9th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 97 | 0.9 |
| 2024 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 97 | 0.3 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4034 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 51% of the irrigation seasons in 1987-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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