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FARMERS DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 0600525 · DITCH · BOULDER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (96d5528) — 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: no administrative call record for this basin.

Where it sits in line

Priority 1862-06-01 — 55th most senior of the 1867 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: BOULDER WHITE ROCK DITCH (1862-06-01). Immediately behind: 0600530 (1862-06-01).

On MAINSTEM at river mile 8.0, it is 4th of 78 down the reach. Immediately upstream: ANDERSON DITCH. Immediately downstream: MESA PARK RES.

Position on the modelled network, not a claim about whose water this is — a stream carries water from many rights at once, and diverted water returns to it.

Decreed rights (7)

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
4535.01862-06-011882-06-02 0.00.0 CMUNALL
4657.01862-10-011882-06-02 52.89940.0 CIRRMUN
4900.01863-06-011882-06-02 0.00.0 CMUNALL
27930.20291905-07-211953-09-28 25.00.0 CSTO
29391.01930-06-211953-09-28 25.00.0 CSTO
32385.01938-09-011953-09-28 25.00.0 CSTO
40740.403071960-05-101964-03-04 20.00.0 CSTO

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 4,130 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 4,861 AF — 118% of that, and 11th 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)
2011 6,593 14th lowest of 15 · 160% of median 149 42.0
2012 5,465 13th lowest of 15 · 132% of median 119 34.0
2013 7,100 15th lowest of 15 · 172% of median 130 44.6
2014 3,399 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 152 18.0
2015 3,120 3rd lowest of 15 · 76% of median 106 26.3
2016 3,712 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 106 23.8
2017 4,821 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median 142 27.0
2018 2,753 2nd lowest of 15 · 67% of median 109 20.9
2019 4,130 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 134 24.4
2020 3,766 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 102 27.0
2021 4,023 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 124 24.8
2022 5,198 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 135 27.5
2023 693 1st lowest of 15 · 17% of median 107 7.7
2024 4,764 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median 251 33.2
2025 4,861 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 304 27.2

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