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DAKAN DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 0801241 · DITCH · DRY GULCH · 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 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).

● Fully called out — call at NEVADA DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1865-12-30).

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 1873-06-01 — 411th 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: 0801252 (1873-05-30). Immediately behind: 0801171 (1873-06-20).

Decreed rights (1)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
8553.01873-06-011883-12-10 1.950.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 83 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 42 AF — 51% of that, and 7th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1998 211 13th lowest of 15 · 254% of median 72 1.5
2001 19 4th lowest of 15 · 23% of median 31 0.5
2003 4 2nd lowest of 15 · 5% of median 2 2.0
2013 83 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 47 2.0
2014 108 10th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 110 1.1
2015 309 14th lowest of 15 · 372% of median 127 1.9
2016 342 15th lowest of 15 · 412% of median 93 4.0
2017 151 11th lowest of 15 · 182% of median 109 2.2
2018 7 3rd lowest of 15 · 8% of median 23 0.2
2019 29 6th lowest of 15 · 35% of median 85 0.8
2020 19 4th lowest of 15 · 23% of median 40 0.5
2021 159 12th lowest of 15 · 192% of median 96 1.5
2022 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 61 0.0
2023 104 9th lowest of 15 · 125% of median 304 1.8
2024 42 7th lowest of 15 · 51% of median 87 1.2

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.