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NEELEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1200618 · 1 · LOW BLACK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:29 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 1882-12-31 — 272nd most senior of the 1967 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: BLACK DITCH NO 2 (1882-11-01). Immediately behind: SAMPSON DITCH NO 2 (1882-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12053.0 | 1882-12-31 | 1894-02-03 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 280 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 123 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 79 AF — 64% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 385 | 14th lowest of 15 · 313% of median | 194 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 345 | 12th lowest of 15 · 280% of median | 174 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 432 | 15th lowest of 15 · 351% of median | 218 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 175 | 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 176 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 147 | 9th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 76 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 174 | 10th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 96 | 1.1 |
| 2009 | 367 | 13th lowest of 15 · 298% of median | 185 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 17 | 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 34 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 78 | 5th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 94 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 76 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 214 | 0.4 |
| 2021 | 61 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 129 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 77 | 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 148 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 84 | 7th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 230 | 0.3 |
| 2024 | 123 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 333 | 0.3 |
| 2025 | 79 | 6th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 191 | 0.3 |
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