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LAFAYETTE DITCH 1
Structure dossier · WDID 0600880 · DITCH · COAL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:26 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 1859-10-01 — 14th 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: 0600879 (1859-10-01). Immediately behind: NEW DRY CR CARRIER DITCH (1859-10-01).
On COAL CREEK at river mile 11.1, it is 25th of 29 down the reach. Immediately upstream: T N WILLIS DITCH. Immediately downstream: BECK PUMP STATION.
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 (9)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3561.0 | 1859-10-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 7457.0 | 1870-06-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 47116.46613 | 1977-08-15 | 1979-12-31 | 5.52 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMOTH | |
| 47481.0 | 1979-12-31 | 1979-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 47847.0 | 1980-12-31 | 1980-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 51269.0 | 1990-05-15 | 1990-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 53872.0 | 1997-06-30 | 1997-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 58804.58227 | 2009-06-02 | 2011-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | ALL | |
| 58825.0 | 2011-01-21 | 2011-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD |
Legal record & documents
16 decreed actions on record across
12 court cases:
11CW0298, 05CW0295, 97CW0195, 06CW0150, 99CW0125, 90CW0108, 79CW0387, 98CW0289, 93CW0025, 79CW0385 and 2 more below.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
11CW0298 | 1 | 2011-12-31 | S |
05CW0295 | 1 | 2011-12-31 | S |
97CW0195 | 3 | 1997-12-31 | O, S |
06CW0150 | 1 | 1997-12-31 | S |
99CW0125 | 1 | 1990-12-31 | S |
90CW0108 | 1 | 1990-12-31 | S |
79CW0387 | 3 | 1980-12-31 | S |
98CW0289 | 1 | 1979-12-31 | S |
93CW0025 | 1 | 1979-12-31 | S |
79CW0385 | 1 | 1979-12-31 | S |
06CW0226 | 1 | 1979-12-31 | S |
02CW0281 | 1 | 1979-12-31 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 18 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 15 AF — 83% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 1 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 9 | 0.1 |
| 2000 | 30 | 11th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 108 | 0.7 |
| 2001 | 54 | 14th lowest of 15 · 300% of median | 134 | 0.4 |
| 2002 | 108 | 15th lowest of 15 · 600% of median | 146 | 2.4 |
| 2003 | 44 | 13th lowest of 15 · 244% of median | 135 | 0.7 |
| 2004 | 21 | 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 75 | 0.5 |
| 2005 | 24 | 10th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 81 | 0.5 |
| 2006 | 43 | 12th lowest of 15 · 239% of median | 149 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 18 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 100 | 0.4 |
| 2008 | 17 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 138 | 0.3 |
| 2010 | 8 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 92 | 0.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 120 | 0.3 |
| 2012 | 15 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 109 | 0.4 |
| 2013 | 11 | 4th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 99 | 0.1 |
| 2014 | 15 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 136 | 0.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-2 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.033).
Its reference gage, EGGLESTON 1 DITCH: no clear flow trend.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 9 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | stale | 1631 measured days, but newest is 4325 day(s) before the data's end (target 450) |
| record continuity | sparse | 30% of the irrigation seasons in 1989-2014 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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