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CRAIG DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1200666 · 1 · BADGER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:31 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 1912-09-01 — 721st 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: MARIGOLD DITCH (1898-01-01). Immediately behind: STATE DITCH NO 1 (1930-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35963.22889 | 1912-09-01 | 1954-03-13 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A-7 |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 39 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 6 | 5th lowest of 11 · 15% of median | 7 | 0.5 |
| 1927 | 788 | 11th lowest of 11 · 2020% of median | 179 | 3.5 |
| 1970 | 354 | 10th lowest of 11 · 908% of median | 170 | 1.5 |
| 1973 | 270 | 9th lowest of 11 · 692% of median | 137 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 39 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 105 | 0.3 |
| 2021 | 146 | 8th lowest of 11 · 374% of median | 227 | 0.5 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 133 | 7th lowest of 11 · 341% of median | 107 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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