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CASSEL CREEK DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 8000728 · DITCH · SHUTETOWN CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:29 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.

Current administration

● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).

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 1874-12-31 — 475th most senior of the 21881 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: 2300989 (1874-12-31). Immediately behind: 8000737 (1874-12-31).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
9131.01874-12-311913-05-22 1.00.0 CIRRDOM

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 141 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 141 AF — 100% of that, and 8th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2003 45 1st lowest of 15 · 32% of median 94 0.2
2010 200 12th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 128 1.0
2011 301 15th lowest of 15 · 214% of median 156 1.0
2012 115 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 82 1.0
2013 127 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 74 1.0
2014 143 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 74 1.0
2015 98 3rd lowest of 15 · 70% of median 83 0.6
2016 70 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median 72 0.5
2017 155 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 79 1.0
2019 258 14th lowest of 15 · 183% of median 131 1.0
2020 224 13th lowest of 15 · 159% of median 114 1.0
2021 162 11th lowest of 15 · 115% of median 137 0.6
2022 111 4th lowest of 15 · 79% of median 113 0.5
2023 119 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 121 0.5
2024 141 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 143 0.5

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.