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PIKE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1100683 · 1 · CHALK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:51 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 1867-05-31 — 49th 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: POSTERARO DITCH (1867-05-01). Immediately behind: WILLOWDALE DITCH (1867-05-31).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6360.0 | 1867-05-31 | 1890-06-19 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | 18 |
| 14305.0 | 1889-03-01 | 1890-06-19 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG | 176 |
| 22407.21014 | 1907-07-15 | 1911-06-09 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUG |
Legal record & documents
9 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA2528, 01CW0152, CA3907.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2528 | 2 | 1911-06-09 | O, S |
01CW0152 | 6 | 1911-06-09 | O, S |
CA3907 | 1 | 1890-06-19 | 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 128 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2002, came in at 0 AF — 0% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 531 | 9th lowest of 15 · 415% of median | 110 | 5.0 |
| 1985 | 961 | 13th lowest of 15 · 751% of median | 177 | 6.0 |
| 1986 | 1,200 | 14th lowest of 15 · 938% of median | 203 | 4.8 |
| 1987 | 895 | 12th lowest of 15 · 699% of median | 151 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 1,265 | 15th lowest of 15 · 988% of median | 127 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 772 | 11th lowest of 15 · 603% of median | 84 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 556 | 10th lowest of 15 · 434% of median | 80 | 8.5 |
| 1992 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 8 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 128 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 51 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 3 | 7th lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 33 | 0.4 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 23 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 17 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 16 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-68 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.001).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4326 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 27% of the irrigation seasons in 1927-2002 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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