Hydrohistorian
← My Water · Print / save as PDF
HODGSON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0200888 · DITCH · GRAFLIN SLOUGH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:23 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 WESTERN MUTUAL DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1871-08-09).
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 1869-04-26 — 277th 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: 0806617 (1869-04-07). Immediately behind: 8002912 (1869-05-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7056.0 | 1869-04-26 | 1883-04-28 | 12.82 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 50038.49917 | 1986-09-01 | 1987-12-31 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRFISWLD |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
87CW0306, 08CW0210, CA6009.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
87CW0306 | 2 | 1987-12-31 | S |
08CW0210 | 1 | 1987-12-31 | S |
CA6009 | 1 | 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 462 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 293 AF — 63% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 339 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 139 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 33 | 1st lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 61 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 389 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 211 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 777 | 14th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 238 | 31.5 |
| 2014 | 462 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 306 | 6.7 |
| 2015 | 518 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 225 | 4.5 |
| 2016 | 490 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 173 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 1,147 | 15th lowest of 15 · 248% of median | 199 | 14.5 |
| 2018 | 596 | 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 175 | 7.8 |
| 2019 | 656 | 12th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 178 | 7.5 |
| 2020 | 261 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 73 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 724 | 13th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 156 | 8.3 |
| 2022 | 397 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 90 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 216 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 49 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 293 | 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 162 | 6.0 |
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 B (8/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 9739 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 62% of the irrigation seasons in 1951-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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.