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HARRINGTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1200661 · 1 · HARDSCRABBLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:43 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 1868-03-04 — 60th 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: COLEMAN DITCH (1867-11-03). Immediately behind: BURNETT DITCH NO 1 (1868-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6638.0 | 1868-03-04 | 1894-02-03 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 40 |
| 8218.0 | 1872-07-01 | 1894-02-03 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 99 |
| 8857.0 | 1874-04-01 | 1894-02-03 | 0.8625 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 133 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 570 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 874 AF — 153% of that, and 12th 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 | 45 | 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 36 | 1.4 |
| 2012 | 345 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 70 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 154 | 4th lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 109 | 1.7 |
| 2014 | 476 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 91 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 570 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 112 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 524 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 103 | 5.2 |
| 2017 | 1,174 | 14th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 218 | 5.3 |
| 2018 | 92 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 72 | 0.9 |
| 2019 | 755 | 11th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 138 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 66 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 73 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 9,838 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1726% of median | 114 | 526.0 |
| 2022 | 604 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 119 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 620 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 101 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 980 | 13th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 139 | 5.2 |
| 2025 | 874 | 12th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 149 | 5.2 |
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