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SECTION NO 3 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0200830 · DITCH · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:41 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 1870-03-10 — 320th 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: 2300716 (1869-12-31). Immediately behind: NISSEN RES (1870-03-10).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7374.0 | 1870-03-10 | 1883-04-28 | 26.88 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUGCURRCH | |
| 8475.0 | 1873-03-15 | 1883-04-28 | 30.83 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUGCURRCH | |
| 59382.0 | 2012-07-31 | 2012-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | AUGRCH |
Legal record & documents
16 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
12CW0179, CA6009, 05CW0223, 04CW0130.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
12CW0179 | 6 | 2012-12-31 | O, S |
CA6009 | 2 | 1883-04-28 | O |
05CW0223 | 4 | 1883-04-28 | O |
04CW0130 | 4 | 1883-04-28 | O |
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 6,255 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 9,089 AF — 145% of that, and 12th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 10,154 | 14th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 185 | 48.0 |
| 2010 | 9,542 | 13th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 184 | 47.9 |
| 2013 | 6,197 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 135 | 44.9 |
| 2014 | 3,728 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 156 | 25.6 |
| 2015 | 5,006 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 156 | 141.0 |
| 2016 | 3,451 | 1st lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 174 | 25.6 |
| 2017 | 5,041 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 211 | 49.8 |
| 2018 | 5,597 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 195 | 23.4 |
| 2019 | 5,873 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 193 | 24.5 |
| 2020 | 6,255 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 209 | 31.7 |
| 2021 | 6,672 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 222 | 30.7 |
| 2022 | 7,400 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 263 | 36.4 |
| 2023 | 9,023 | 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 365 | 39.8 |
| 2024 | 10,794 | 15th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 366 | 38.6 |
| 2025 | 9,089 | 12th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 304 | 35.0 |
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 A (9/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 12812 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 79% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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