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WHITE DITCH NO 3
Structure dossier · WDID 1100558 · 1 · SOUTH ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:30 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1872-05-01 — 85th 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: KRAFT DITCH (1872-05-01). Immediately behind: WHITE DITCH NO 2 (1872-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8157.0 | 1872-05-01 | 1890-06-19 | 0.98 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 38 |
| 9952.0 | 1877-03-31 | 1890-06-19 | 0.62 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 62 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 401 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 357 AF — 89% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 401 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 163 | 1.8 |
| 2009 | 373 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 172 | 1.4 |
| 2010 | 292 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 167 | 1.1 |
| 2011 | 236 | 1st lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 143 | 1.6 |
| 2012 | 370 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 178 | 1.6 |
| 2013 | 359 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 163 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 437 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 207 | 1.4 |
| 2015 | 275 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 201 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 495 | 14th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 204 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 484 | 12th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 216 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 470 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 199 | 1.6 |
| 2019 | 488 | 13th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 197 | 1.9 |
| 2020 | 525 | 15th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 205 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 452 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 182 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 357 | 4th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 110 | 2.2 |
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