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JAY THOMAS DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 0200826 · DITCH · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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

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

● Junior rights called out — call at HARMONY DITCH 1 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1897-05-02).

● Junior rights called out — call at SOUTH PLATTE RIVER COMPACT (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1897-06-13).

● Junior rights called out — call at LOWER PLATTE BEAVER D (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1888-04-14).

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 1865-06-01 — 135th 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: 8000742 (1865-01-01). Immediately behind: FARMERS INDEPENDENT DITCH (1865-11-20).

Decreed rights (6)

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
5631.01865-06-011883-04-28 5.60.0 CIRRINDAUG
5969.01866-05-051883-04-28 0.5570.0 CINDAUG
7892.01871-08-101883-04-28 0.7430.0 CINDAUG
56247.02003-12-312002-12-31 0.0100.0 CAUG
57494.02007-05-312007-12-31 0.00.0 AAUGRCH
57494.02007-05-312007-12-31 0.00.0 CAUGRCH

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 254 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 11 AF — 4% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 14 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)
2008 — no recorded volume 129 0 —
2009 139 5th lowest of 14 · 55% of median 8 111 6.1
2010 386 10th lowest of 14 · 152% of median 177 134 6.8
2011 226 7th lowest of 14 · 89% of median 113 61 2.8
2012 283 8th lowest of 14 · 111% of median 142 202 4.3
2013 2,013 13th lowest of 14 · 791% of median 2,013 155 19.0
2014 55 3rd lowest of 14 · 22% of median 55 18 2.7
2016 768 12th lowest of 14 · 302% of median 768 73 15.1
2017 403 11th lowest of 14 · 158% of median 403 130 15.5
2019 383 9th lowest of 14 · 150% of median 383 75 6.8
2020 2,027 14th lowest of 14 · 796% of median 2,027 297 10.6
2021 125 4th lowest of 14 · 49% of median 125 129 5.0
2022 217 6th lowest of 14 · 85% of median 217 103 4.7
2023 0 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median 0 61 0.0
2024 11 2nd lowest of 14 · 4% of median 11 305 2.4

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