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HENSIE DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 1100602 · 1 · LITTLE COCHETOPA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:54 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 in line
Priority 1870-12-31 — 69th 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: HUNTZICKER DITCH (1870-12-31). Immediately behind: HENRY DITCH (1870-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7670.0 | 1870-12-31 | 1890-06-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 31 |
| 8766.0 | 1873-12-31 | 1890-06-19 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 49 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 176 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 657 AF — 373% of that, and 13th lowest of the 14 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 264 | 11th lowest of 14 · 150% of median | — | 96 | 1.8 |
| 1999 | — | no recorded volume | 265 | 0 | — |
| 2000 | 107 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 61% of median | — | 66 | 1.2 |
| 2001 | 185 | 8th lowest of 14 · 105% of median | — | 110 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | — | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 167 | 7th lowest of 14 · 95% of median | — | 109 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 109 | 4th lowest of 14 · 62% of median | — | 97 | 0.8 |
| 2005 | 187 | 9th lowest of 14 · 106% of median | — | 144 | 1.1 |
| 2006 | 135 | 5th lowest of 14 · 77% of median | — | 101 | 1.9 |
| 2007 | 211 | 10th lowest of 14 · 120% of median | — | 123 | 1.1 |
| 2008 | 156 | 6th lowest of 14 · 89% of median | — | 107 | 0.8 |
| 2010 | 331 | 12th lowest of 14 · 188% of median | 178 | 242 | 1.6 |
| 2011 | 720 | 14th lowest of 14 · 409% of median | 720 | 304 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 0 | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 657 | 13th lowest of 14 · 373% of median | — | 188 | 3.2 |
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