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OLIVER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0100657 · 1 · LONE TREE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 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 1887-04-12 — 322nd most senior of the 7705 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: CONSOLIDATED LARSON D (1885-12-28). Immediately behind: OLIVER SAND CREEK DITCH (1887-05-14).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16761.13616 | 1887-04-12 | 1914-01-15 | 20.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 468 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,217 AF — 260% of that, and 10th lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 448 | 5th lowest of 10 · 96% of median | 95 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 255 | 1st lowest of 10 · 54% of median | 87 | 3.7 |
| 2017 | 331 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 71% of median | 97 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 419 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 90% of median | 146 | 3.9 |
| 2019 | 443 | 4th lowest of 10 · 95% of median | 184 | 3.9 |
| 2020 | 488 | 6th lowest of 10 · 104% of median | 136 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 724 | 9th lowest of 10 · 155% of median | 260 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 609 | 7th lowest of 10 · 130% of median | 170 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 719 | 8th lowest of 10 · 154% of median | 179 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 1,217 | 10th lowest of 10 · 260% of median | 193 | 8.9 |
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