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FLINTON CAREY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0801254 · DITCH · GARBER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 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 1869-07-30 — 282nd 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: 0801180 (1869-07-30). Immediately behind: 0805053 (1869-07-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7151.0 | 1869-07-30 | 1883-12-10 | 2.17 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 7851.0 | 1871-06-30 | 1883-12-10 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 88 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,257 AF — 1428% of that, and 15th lowest of the 15 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 288 | 12th lowest of 15 · 327% of median | 96 | 2.2 |
| 2006 | 82 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 124 | 0.6 |
| 2007 | 276 | 11th lowest of 15 · 314% of median | 122 | 4.1 |
| 2008 | 127 | 9th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 122 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 50 | 5th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 171 | 2.1 |
| 2010 | 170 | 10th lowest of 15 · 193% of median | 176 | 2.3 |
| 2011 | 58 | 6th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 161 | 1.1 |
| 2012 | 33 | 4th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 86 | 0.4 |
| 2013 | 12 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 64 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 10 | 1st lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 53 | 0.2 |
| 2015 | 88 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 55 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 15 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 74 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 371 | 13th lowest of 15 · 422% of median | 188 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 864 | 14th lowest of 15 · 982% of median | 304 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 1,257 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1428% of median | 208 | 8.4 |
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