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CHURCH DITCH RALSTON CREEK DIVERSION
Structure dossier · WDID 0700942 · DITCH · RALSTON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:19 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 — 40th 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: FARMERS HIGHLINE RALSTON CREEK (1860-08-31). Immediately behind: 0700571 (1860-12-31).
On RALSTON CREEK at river mile 48.6, it is 12th of 24 down the reach. Immediately upstream: CHURCH D TO RALSTON CREEK RETURN. Immediately downstream: ARVADA CHURCH 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 (8)
| 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 | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 4140.0 | 1861-05-02 | 1884-10-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 4554.0 | 1862-06-20 | 1884-10-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 5295.0 | 1864-06-30 | 1884-10-04 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD | |
| 16718.10184 | 1877-11-18 | 1936-05-13 | 184.352 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 19055.0 | 1902-03-04 | 1936-05-13 | 185.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | |
| 20281.0 | 1905-07-12 | 1936-05-13 | 110.88 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 52586.0 | 1993-12-22 | 1993-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGWLD |
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