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CACHE LA POUDRE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0300915 · 1 · CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:20 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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.
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 1861-06-01 — 9th most senior of the 2961 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: LARIMER COUNTY NO 2 D (1861-06-01). Immediately behind: FORT COLLINS IRR CNL (1861-06-01).
Decreed rights (24)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4170.0 | 1861-06-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 4443.0 | 1862-03-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 5372.0 | 1864-09-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 6026.0 | 1866-07-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 6483.0 | 1867-10-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 6649.0 | 1868-03-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 6727.0 | 1868-06-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 7061.0 | 1869-05-01 | 1882-04-11 | 62.08 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 7092.0 | 1869-06-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 7184.0 | 1869-09-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 7761.0 | 1871-04-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 7953.0 | 1871-10-10 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 8218.0 | 1872-07-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 8480.0 | 1873-03-20 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 8492.0 | 1873-04-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 8522.0 | 1873-05-01 | 1882-04-11 | 20.42 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 8645.0 | 1873-09-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 10318.0 | 1878-04-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 11003.0 | 1880-02-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | |
| 11438.0 | 1881-04-25 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 23646.0 | 1914-09-28 | 1945-12-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | ALL | |
| 26409.23646 | 1914-09-28 | 1945-12-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 52210.0 | 1992-12-11 | 1992-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | ALL | |
| 56224.0 | 2003-12-08 | 2003-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG |
Legal record & documents
43 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
03CW0422, 03CW0421, 92CW0130, W1424, CA0320.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
03CW0422 | 13 | 2003-12-31 | O, S |
03CW0421 | 10 | 2003-12-31 | O, S |
92CW0130 | 5 | 1992-12-31 | S |
W1424 | 13 | 1882-04-11 | O |
CA0320 | 2 | 1882-04-11 | 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 10,610 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 9,843 AF — 93% of that, and 6th 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.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 13,831 | 12th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | — | 183 | 136.9 |
| 2009 | 13,768 | 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | — | 265 | 136.0 |
| 2010 | 13,500 | 9th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | — | 238 | 132.0 |
| 2011 | 14,519 | 13th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | — | 140 | 114.0 |
| 2012 | 10,305 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | — | 125 | 77.0 |
| 2013 | 2,452 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | — | 45 | 57.0 |
| 2016 | 3,918 | 5th lowest of 15 · 37% of median | — | 63 | 52.3 |
| 2017 | 2,455 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 23% of median | — | 31 | 50.6 |
| 2018 | 3,597 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | — | 41 | 63.2 |
| 2019 | 3,622 | 4th lowest of 15 · 34% of median | — | 50 | 55.3 |
| 2020 | 17,345 | 14th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | — | 226 | 66.2 |
| 2021 | 13,724 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | — | 229 | 65.2 |
| 2022 | 17,398 | 15th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | — | 229 | 70.8 |
| 2023 | 10,610 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 204 | 103.0 |
| 2024 | 9,843 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | — | 203 | 64.4 |
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 | 24 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 13435 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 84% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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