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COLEMAN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1200654 · 1 · HARDSCRABBLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:40 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 1867-11-03 — 59th 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: ROCKVALE TOWN WELL NO 6 (1867-05-31). Immediately behind: HARRINGTON DITCH (1868-03-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6516.0 | 1867-11-03 | 1894-02-03 | 2.5625 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 36 |
| 9222.0 | 1875-04-01 | 1894-02-03 | 0.3125 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 150 |
| 13209.0 | 1886-03-01 | 1894-02-03 | 0.375 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 332 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 966 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,285 AF — 133% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 121 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 56 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 467 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 123 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 15 | 1st lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 10 | 3.3 |
| 2014 | 639 | 5th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 208 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 971 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 249 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 895 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 319 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 1,951 | 15th lowest of 15 · 202% of median | 351 | 6.3 |
| 2018 | 1,084 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 275 | 2.6 |
| 2019 | 966 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 221 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 494 | 4th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 160 | 2.7 |
| 2021 | 1,106 | 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 332 | 3.2 |
| 2022 | 1,031 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 338 | 2.7 |
| 2023 | 938 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 319 | 3.3 |
| 2024 | 1,333 | 14th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 304 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 1,285 | 13th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 293 | 3.9 |
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