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LEGGETT DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 0600537 · DITCH · BOULDER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1868-05-01 — 87th 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: MARSHALLVILLE DITCH (1865-06-01). Immediately behind: CHURCH DITCH(UPPER) (1870-09-20).

On MAINSTEM at river mile 18.2, it is 30th of 78 down the reach. Immediately upstream: LAFAYETTE BLDR C ALT PT. Immediately downstream: HARTMAN 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 (4)

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
6696.01868-05-011882-06-02 31.350.0 CIRR
11664.01881-12-071882-06-02 50.00.0 CIRR
20890.198741904-05-311926-06-21 0.00.0 CSTO
29219.01929-12-311953-09-28 0.00.0 CSTO

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 6,054 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 7,029 AF — 116% 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 9,242 15th lowest of 15 · 153% of median 148 80.2
2012 6,624 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median 150 35.9
2013 7,771 13th lowest of 15 · 128% of median 160 59.2
2014 6,915 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 127 55.1
2015 4,485 3rd lowest of 15 · 74% of median 90 40.9
2016 8,323 14th lowest of 15 · 138% of median 161 64.8
2017 6,054 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 125 54.2
2018 5,518 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 128 52.7
2019 6,053 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 124 44.6
2020 5,279 4th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 110 49.6
2021 5,725 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 106 52.4
2022 1,665 2nd lowest of 15 · 28% of median 51 24.0
2023 874 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median 38 21.0
2024 7,250 12th lowest of 15 · 120% of median 135 46.9
2025 7,029 11th lowest of 15 · 116% of median 187 53.4

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