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CHAMP DITCH (ARK)
Structure dossier · WDID 1100517 · 1 · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:20 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 1877-06-25 — 128th most senior of the 1489 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: WILLIAMS DITCH (1877-04-30). Immediately behind: GIEBFRIED DITCH (1878-04-20).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10038.0 | 1877-06-25 | 1901-01-31 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 65A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 653 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 30 AF — 5% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1,533 | 14th lowest of 15 · 235% of median | 201 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 1,256 | 11th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 178 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 1,691 | 15th lowest of 15 · 259% of median | 182 | 5.0 |
| 1994 | 1,268 | 12th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 174 | 6.0 |
| 1995 | 1,244 | 10th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 153 | 6.0 |
| 1996 | 217 | 6th lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 75 | 1.5 |
| 1997 | 948 | 9th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 103 | 5.0 |
| 1998 | 634 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 107 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 1,408 | 13th lowest of 15 · 216% of median | 143 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 653 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 94 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 124 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 35 | 5th lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 124 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 30 | 4th lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 123 | 0.3 |
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