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RANCH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0900871 · 1 · VANCE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:13 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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.
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 1882-12-07 — 193rd most senior of the 2058 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: POLLOCK MEADOW D NO 2 (1882-12-07). Immediately behind: VANCE DITCH 2 (1882-12-07).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12029.0 | 1882-12-07 | 1935-09-24 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | |
| 12453.12029 | 1882-12-07 | 1935-09-24 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 9 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 10 AF — 111% of that, and 4th lowest of the 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 15 | 5th lowest of 6 · 167% of median | 26 | 0.3 |
| 2020 | 4 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 44% of median | 9 | 0.3 |
| 2021 | 27 | 6th lowest of 6 · 300% of median | 47 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 1st lowest of 6 · 22% of median | 11 | 0.1 |
| 2023 | 8 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 89% of median | 14 | 0.3 |
| 2024 | 10 | 4th lowest of 6 · 111% of median | 18 | 0.3 |
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