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DICKENS PRIVATE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0500562 · 1 · SAINT VRAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:37 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 get called out?
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 1862-04-15 — 36th most senior of the 1289 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: NIWOT DITCH (1862-04-15). Immediately behind: ZWECK TURNER DITCH (1862-04-15).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4488.0 | 1862-04-15 | 1882-06-02 | 15.47 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 395 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 370 AF — 94% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 395 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 153 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 653 | 9th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 173 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 770 | 12th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 189 | 4.0 |
| 1979 | 698 | 10th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 193 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 879 | 14th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 162 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 1,051 | 15th lowest of 15 · 266% of median | 199 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 754 | 11th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 192 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 127 | 4th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 28 | 3.0 |
| 1984 | 268 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 60 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 119 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 5 | 15.0 |
| 1986 | 101 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 21 | 3.0 |
| 1987 | 188 | 5th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 66 | 2.0 |
| 1988 | 48 | 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 14 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 832 | 13th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 50 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 370 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 100 | 10.6 |
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