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DR ROGERS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1000600 · 1 · FOUNTAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:05 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 1866-03-01 — 53rd most senior of the 2864 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: DIXON DITCH (1865-09-21). Immediately behind: WOOD VALLEY DITCH (1866-03-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5904.0 | 1866-03-01 | 1882-03-06 | 5.55 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFIRDOMSTKAUG | 25 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA0751, 15CW3068.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA0751 | 1 | 1882-03-06 | O |
15CW3068 | 2 | 1882-03-06 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,003 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 385 AF — 38% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1,732 | 15th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 318 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 1,004 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 185 | 7.2 |
| 2003 | 943 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 230 | 6.1 |
| 2004 | 1,003 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 316 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 839 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 196 | 5.9 |
| 2006 | 1,234 | 14th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 269 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 916 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 192 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 1,053 | 11th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 240 | 8.0 |
| 2009 | 812 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 243 | 6.4 |
| 2010 | 1,126 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 256 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 1,221 | 13th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 335 | 6.1 |
| 2012 | 1,034 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 366 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 935 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 304 | 8.6 |
| 2014 | 908 | 4th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 247 | 7.5 |
| 2015 | 385 | 1st lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 109 | 7.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 14500 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 72% of the irrigation seasons in 1922-2015 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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