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LAKE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 0500564 · 1 · LEFT HAND CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:09 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 1874-04-15 — 109th 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: CLOVER BASIN DITCH (1873-06-01). Immediately behind: RENNER DITCH (1874-05-01).

Decreed rights (5)

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
8871.01874-04-151882-12-02 7.56810.0 CIRRCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD
10697.01879-04-151882-12-02 3.2920.0 CIRRCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD
27910.251721918-12-021951-07-23 49.30.0 CSTO
28260.01927-05-171951-07-23 49.30.0 CSTO
29219.01929-12-311951-07-23 49.30.0 CSTO

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,975 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,593 AF — 81% of that, and 3rd 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)
2008 2,679 14th lowest of 15 · 136% of median 180 18.0
2009 2,797 15th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 206 19.5
2010 2,359 12th lowest of 15 · 119% of median 166 16.5
2013 1,837 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 135 18.0
2014 2,166 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 157 14.5
2015 1,116 2nd lowest of 15 · 56% of median 139 12.4
2016 1,626 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 179 18.2
2017 1,975 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 103 19.5
2018 607 1st lowest of 15 · 31% of median 54 13.2
2019 2,223 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median 184 19.1
2020 2,539 13th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 164 18.5
2021 2,115 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 141 20.0
2022 1,872 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 167 14.8
2023 1,806 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 173 13.6
2024 1,593 3rd lowest of 15 · 81% of median 174 13.8

Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 58.0% of a median season / 16.8% dry-year.

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