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NEW CACHE LA POUDRE CO DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0300929 · 1 · CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:18 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 1862-03-01 — 52nd 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: TAFT HILL DIVERSION (1862-03-01). Immediately behind: TAYLOR GILL DITCH (1862-03-01).
Decreed rights (30)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4443.0 | 1862-03-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 5372.0 | 1864-09-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 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 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGCUR | |
| 6354.0 | 1867-05-25 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGCUR | |
| 6649.0 | 1868-03-15 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 6757.0 | 1868-07-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNAUGCUR | |
| 7603.0 | 1870-10-25 | 1882-04-11 | 110.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 7928.0 | 1871-09-15 | 1882-04-11 | 170.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 8480.0 | 1873-03-20 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 9080.0 | 1874-11-10 | 1882-04-11 | 184.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 10120.0 | 1877-09-15 | 1882-04-11 | 121.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 10318.0 | 1878-04-01 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 11438.0 | 1881-04-25 | 1882-04-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 26409.23646 | 1914-09-28 | 1945-12-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 45655.45437 | 1974-05-27 | 1975-12-31 | 65.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 50038.0 | 1986-12-31 | 1986-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | ALL | |
| 50038.50038 | 1986-12-31 | 1987-12-31 | 0.0 | 50.0 | C | IRRMUNRECDOMAUG | |
| 55412.0 | 2001-09-17 | 2001-12-31 | 98.6 | 551.4 | C | IRRCOMINDRECFISAUGRCHWLD | |
| 55577.0 | 2002-03-01 | 2002-12-31 | 0.0 | 600.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 57843.0 | 2008-05-14 | 2008-12-31 | 15.0 | 0.0 | C | AUGRCH | |
| 57943.0 | 2008-08-22 | 2008-12-31 | 0.0 | 2.0 | C | AUG | |
| 59900.59724 | 2013-07-08 | 2014-12-31 | 0.0 | 20.0 | C | IRRMUNINDFIRAUG | |
| 59990.0 | 2014-03-31 | 2014-12-31 | 0.0 | 1250.0 | A | STO | |
| 59990.0 | 2014-03-31 | 2014-12-31 | 0.0 | 10.0 | C | STO | |
| 60204.0 | 2014-10-31 | 2013-12-31 | 0.0 | 792.62 | A | MUNAUGRCH | |
| 61330.0 | 2017-11-30 | 2017-12-31 | 0.0 | 20.0 | C | MUNAUGCURRCH | |
| 61420.0 | 2018-02-28 | 2018-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 61814.0 | 2019-03-29 | 2019-12-31 | 0.0 | 20.0 | C | AUGCUR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 60,447 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 70,058 AF — 116% of that, and 13th 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 | 44,871 | 1st lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 22,217 | 355 | 444.0 |
| 2011 | 75,174 | 15th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | — | 232 | 484.0 |
| 2012 | 54,037 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 89% of median | — | 142 | 386.0 |
| 2013 | 55,148 | 4th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | — | 168 | 489.0 |
| 2014 | 55,354 | 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | — | 192 | 401.8 |
| 2015 | 57,056 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | — | 181 | 437.0 |
| 2016 | 59,959 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | — | 192 | 464.0 |
| 2017 | 68,698 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | — | 265 | 444.8 |
| 2018 | 67,886 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | — | 354 | 480.0 |
| 2019 | 71,560 | 14th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | — | 349 | 471.0 |
| 2020 | 62,672 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | — | 276 | 390.0 |
| 2021 | 60,447 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 298 | 502.0 |
| 2022 | 70,029 | 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | — | 303 | 534.0 |
| 2023 | 52,609 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 87% of median | — | 179 | 500.0 |
| 2024 | 70,058 | 13th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | — | 234 | 489.0 |
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