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CHATFIELD ARBORETUM WETLANDS INLET DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0800524 · DITCH · DEER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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
● Fully called out — call at LITTLETON BOAT CHUTE NO 10 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1994-12-02).
● Fully called out — call at CANAL 3 DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1870-04-01).
● Fully called out — call at BIG T PLATTE R DITCH (BIG THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1865-11-18).
● Fully called out — call at B H EATON DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1864-06-09).
● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
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 1986-01-03 — 17209th most senior of the 21881 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: 2306858 (1984-06-04). Immediately behind: 0803038 (1986-01-03).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57343.49676 | 1986-01-03 | 2007-12-31 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | FISOTHWLD | |
| 57406.0 | 2007-03-04 | 2007-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | FISOTHWLD |
Recorded use (last 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 35 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 32 AF — 91% of that, and 4th lowest of the 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 55 | 7th lowest of 9 · 157% of median | 39 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 35 | 5th lowest of 9 · 100% of median | 7 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 39 | 6th lowest of 9 · 111% of median | 10 | 5.7 |
| 2019 | 63 | 8th lowest of 9 · 180% of median | 15 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 24 | 2nd lowest of 9 · 69% of median | 7 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 23 | 1st lowest of 9 · 66% of median | 68 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 30 | 3rd lowest of 9 · 86% of median | 365 | 4.5 |
| 2023 | 162 | 9th lowest of 9 · 463% of median | 304 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 32 | 4th lowest of 9 · 91% of median | 77 | 0.9 |
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