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BLUE DITCH PIPELINE
Structure dossier · WDID 0700522 · DITCH · LITTLE BEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (4ab2507) — 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.
Current administration
● Junior rights called out — call at SOUTH PLATTE RIVER COMPACT (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1897-06-13).
● Junior rights called out — call at LITTLETON BOAT CHUTE NO 10 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1994-12-02).
● Fully called out — call at OSBORNE CAYWOOD DITCH (LITTLE THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1861-05-31).
● Fully called out — call at CANAL 3 DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1870-04-01).
● Junior rights called out — call at OGILVY DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1881-06-30).
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 1880-09-20 — 94th most senior of the 1815 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: 0701116 (1880-05-31). Immediately behind: 0700700 (1880-09-20).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11221.0 | 1880-09-20 | 1914-10-09 | 0.7 | 0.0 | C | FIRDOMOTH | |
| 62091.61289 | 2017-10-20 | 2020-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNFIRDOMAUG |
Recorded use (last 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 210 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 227 AF — 108% of that, and 6th lowest of the 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 95 | 1st lowest of 6 · 45% of median | 95 | 0.7 |
| 2018 | 215 | 4th lowest of 6 · 103% of median | 365 | 2.5 |
| 2019 | 204 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 97% of median | 365 | 1.7 |
| 2020 | 217 | 5th lowest of 6 · 104% of median | 366 | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 197 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 94% of median | 365 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 227 | 6th lowest of 6 · 108% of median | 304 | 2.9 |
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