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FORD WATER RECHARGE AREA

Structure dossier · WDID 0202003 · RECHARGE AREA · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 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 1984-11-24 — 9716th 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: 2303412 (1984-06-15). Immediately behind: 0209657 (1986-01-15).

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
49673.492711984-11-241986-12-31 400.00.0 AAUGRCH

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,064 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,064 AF — 100% of that, and 8th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 1,281 10th lowest of 15 · 120% of median 97 24.1
2012 1,295 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median 88 35.8
2013 1,429 12th lowest of 15 · 134% of median 91 20.9
2014 1,513 13th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 165 13.3
2015 1,608 14th lowest of 15 · 151% of median 199 10.5
2016 1,268 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median 336 5.4
2017 839 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median 304 2.3
2018 872 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 144 10.6
2019 706 2nd lowest of 15 · 66% of median 25 16.0
2020 984 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 32 16.9
2021 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 7 0.2
2022 867 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 232 15.6
2023 1,689 15th lowest of 15 · 159% of median 365 14.5
2024 1,056 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median 366 8.4
2025 1,064 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 304 14.9

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