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VAUGHN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1200625 · 1 · HARDSCRABBLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:15 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 1871-12-01 — 117th 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: FRANCK RESERVOIR (1871-11-30). Immediately behind: JOHNSON DITCH (1872-01-02).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8005.0 | 1871-12-01 | 1894-02-03 | 4.0875 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 78, NI2 |
| 9922.0 | 1877-03-01 | 1894-02-03 | 0.6875 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 179 |
| 12493.0 | 1884-03-15 | 1894-02-03 | 0.0625 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 301 |
| 27172.2277 | 1912-05-05 | 1925-11-12 | 7.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA4507, CA2637, 02/03/1894.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4507 | 1 | 1925-11-12 | S |
CA2637 | 1 | 1916-02-14 | O |
02/03/1894 | 3 | 1894-02-03 | 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 0 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — —% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 51 | 12th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 17 | 2.9 |
| 2010 | 251 | 15th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 66 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 7 | 11th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 5 | 1.2 |
| 2013 | 74 | 14th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 118 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 67 | 13th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 32 | 1.8 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 13 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 20 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 20 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 21 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 19 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 18 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (+0 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.015).
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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4785 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 20% of the irrigation seasons in 1912-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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