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BALE DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 1100564 · 1 · SOUTH ARKANSAS RIVER · 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 1875-04-30 — 114th 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: BALE DITCH NO 1 (1875-04-30). Immediately behind: MCGEE DITCH (1875-04-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9251.0 | 1875-04-30 | 1902-07-21 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 33950.17897 | 1898-12-31 | 1969-07-09 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | A51 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 110 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 135 AF — 123% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 210 | 11th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 107 | 1.3 |
| 2008 | 273 | 14th lowest of 15 · 248% of median | 151 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 11 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 253 | 13th lowest of 15 · 230% of median | 133 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 250 | 12th lowest of 15 · 227% of median | 132 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 173 | 10th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 103 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 391 | 15th lowest of 15 · 356% of median | 162 | 1.3 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 89 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 63 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 110 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 65 | 0.9 |
| 2019 | 89 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 52 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 93 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 111 | 0.7 |
| 2021 | 64 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 60 | 0.7 |
| 2023 | 135 | 9th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 98 | 1.1 |
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