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FISHER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0700570 · DITCH · CLEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:21 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 SWADLEY LONGAN DITCH (RALSTON CREEK, priority 1861-04-09).
● Junior rights called out — call at CLEAR CR PLATTE RIVER D (CLEAR CREEK, priority 1861-11-01).
● Junior rights called out — call at FARMERS INDEPENDENT DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1865-11-20).
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: no gage record for this year at this date, so there is nothing to find analogs for.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1860-08-31 — 38th 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: OUELETTE DITCH (1860-05-31). Immediately behind: FARMERS HIGHLINE RALSTON CREEK (1860-08-31).
On MAINSTEM at river mile 59.6, it is 99th of 107 down the reach. Immediately upstream: SHEETS PONDS. Immediately downstream: FISHER D RETURN.
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 (12)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3896.0 | 1860-08-31 | 1884-10-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRCOMINDDOMAUGOTH | |
| 4140.0 | 1861-05-02 | 1884-10-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRCOMINDDOMAUGOTH | |
| 4198.0 | 1861-06-29 | 1884-10-04 | 34.741 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 4323.0 | 1861-11-01 | 1884-10-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 4554.0 | 1862-06-20 | 1884-10-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRCOMINDDOMAUGOTH | |
| 5057.0 | 1863-11-05 | 1884-10-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 5295.0 | 1864-06-30 | 1884-10-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRCOMINDDOMAUGOTH | |
| 6273.0 | 1867-03-05 | 1884-10-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 8861.0 | 1874-04-05 | 1884-10-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 17621.0 | 1898-03-30 | 1936-05-13 | 35.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 51711.0 | 1991-07-31 | 1991-12-31 | 16.24 | 18.76 | C | MUNINDFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 56491.0 | 2004-08-31 | 2002-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IND |
Legal record & documents
25 decreed actions on record across
13 court cases:
13CW3066, 02CW0116, 91CW0055, 00CW0193, CA60052, 95CW0156, 91CW0047, 91CW0005, 90CW0215, 89CW0132 and 3 more below.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
13CW3066 | 1 | 2002-12-31 | S |
02CW0116 | 1 | 2002-12-31 | S |
91CW0055 | 1 | 1991-12-31 | S |
00CW0193 | 1 | 1991-12-31 | S |
CA60052 | 1 | 1936-05-13 | S |
95CW0156 | 2 | 1884-10-04 | O |
91CW0047 | 2 | 1884-10-04 | O |
91CW0005 | 2 | 1884-10-04 | O |
90CW0215 | 4 | 1884-10-04 | O |
89CW0132 | 6 | 1884-10-04 | O |
88CW0105 | 1 | 1884-10-04 | O |
10/04/1884 | 1 | 1884-10-04 | O |
02CW0054 | 2 | 1884-10-04 | O |
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 4,943 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 3,614 AF — 73% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11,994 | 15th lowest of 15 · 243% of median | — | 365 | 39.6 |
| 2012 | 7,873 | 12th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | — | 297 | 25.6 |
| 2013 | 4,932 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 275 | 26.8 |
| 2014 | 7,480 | 10th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | — | 365 | 34.2 |
| 2015 | 7,549 | 11th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | — | 365 | 22.7 |
| 2016 | 8,042 | 13th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | — | 366 | 22.6 |
| 2017 | 8,230 | 14th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | — | 304 | 28.1 |
| 2018 | 5,659 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | — | 213 | 27.3 |
| 2019 | 4,943 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 214 | 23.8 |
| 2020 | 4,840 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | — | 196 | 27.8 |
| 2021 | 4,379 | 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | — | 255 | 20.2 |
| 2022 | 3,883 | 4th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | — | 365 | 19.5 |
| 2023 | 3,255 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 66% of median | — | 365 | 23.9 |
| 2024 | 2,401 | 1st lowest of 15 · 49% of median | — | 365 | 17.1 |
| 2025 | 3,614 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | — | 304 | 21.2 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 100.0% of a median season / 79.9% dry-year.
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-478 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.000).
Its reference gage, JIM BAKER RESERVOIR OUT TO CLEAR CREEK: no clear flow trend.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (10/10 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 | 12 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | current | 22224 measured days, newest 282 day(s) before the data's end (DWR publishes ~1 year in arrears) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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