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DENVER-HUDSON CNL

Structure dossier · WDID 0200805 · DITCH · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 CANAL 3 DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1870-04-01).

● Fully called out — call at BIG T PLATTE R DITCH (BIG THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1865-11-18).

● Fully called out — call at B H EATON DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1864-06-09).

● Fully called out — call at LOWER LATHAM DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1877-11-14).

● Fully called out — call at HILLSBOROUGH DITCH (BIG THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1861-11-10).

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 1965-06-01 — 9707th 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: 2301659 (1959-12-31). Immediately behind: 0200996 (1965-06-01).

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
49673.421551965-06-011986-12-31 0.0550.0 CIRRDOMSTKOTH

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 37,916 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 20,919 AF — 55% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

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 recordReleased (AF)Days recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 43,840 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median — 170 262.0
2012 45,539 13th lowest of 15 · 120% of median — 88 547.1
2013 26,103 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median — 111 292.7
2014 56,640 14th lowest of 15 · 149% of median — 260 277.4
2015 3,212 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median — 15 161.6
2016 32,408 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median — 181 249.1
2017 61,841 15th lowest of 15 · 163% of median — 198 376.4
2018 39,451 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median — 137 418.6
2019 43,380 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median — 156 237.6
2020 27,815 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median — 138 259.1
2021 39,034 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median — 109 417.8
2022 15,491 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median — 75 209.8
2023 25,575 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median — 119 248.1
2024 37,916 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median — 214 263.8
2025 20,919 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median — 96 257.2

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.