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BOX ELDER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0300926 · 1 · CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:48 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.
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 1865-04-10 — 70th 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: CACHE LA PODR RES INLET CANAL (1865-04-10). Immediately behind: COY DITCH STATION (1865-04-10).
Decreed rights (13)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5579.0 | 1865-04-10 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUNAUGCUR | |
| 5579.0 | 1865-04-10 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGCUR | |
| 5904.0 | 1866-03-01 | 1882-04-11 | 32.5 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 6354.0 | 1867-05-25 | 1882-04-11 | 8.33 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 6757.0 | 1868-07-01 | 1882-04-11 | 11.93 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 50038.0 | 1986-12-31 | 1986-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | ALL | |
| 51864.51237 | 1990-04-13 | 1992-12-31 | 0.0 | 2.5 | C | IRRCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGWLD | |
| 52732.0 | 1994-05-17 | 1994-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGWLD | |
| 56977.0 | 2005-12-30 | 2005-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | AUGCURRCH | |
| 58074.56857 | 2005-09-01 | 2009-12-31 | 50.0 | 0.0 | C | AUGCURRCH | |
| 59161.0 | 2011-12-23 | 2011-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 59983.0 | 2014-03-24 | 2014-12-31 | 11.29 | 4.71 | C | MUN | |
| 60476.0 | 2015-07-30 | 2014-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | AUGCUR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 9,088 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 8,562 AF — 94% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,004 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 88% of median | — | 227 | 43.0 |
| 2011 | 8,287 | 4th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | — | 224 | 44.2 |
| 2012 | 10,812 | 12th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | — | 225 | 52.2 |
| 2013 | 5,977 | 1st lowest of 15 · 66% of median | — | 167 | 80.0 |
| 2014 | 17,010 | 15th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | — | 222 | 88.6 |
| 2015 | 8,258 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 91% of median | — | 215 | 37.3 |
| 2016 | 8,765 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | — | 206 | 46.4 |
| 2017 | 8,733 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | — | 206 | 46.4 |
| 2018 | 10,589 | 11th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | — | 206 | 47.7 |
| 2019 | 12,878 | 14th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | — | 245 | 44.2 |
| 2020 | 10,138 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | — | 205 | 38.7 |
| 2021 | 10,942 | 13th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | — | 206 | 46.2 |
| 2022 | 9,559 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | — | 206 | 44.9 |
| 2023 | 9,088 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 199 | 58.4 |
| 2024 | 8,562 | 5th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | — | 230 | 51.1 |
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