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RAGLAND AND COX DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1200706 · 1 · HAYDEN 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 1873-04-10 — 154th 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: CAERADOCK DITCH (1873-04-10). Immediately behind: GIBBS DITCH (1873-04-15).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8501.0 | 1873-04-10 | 1910-05-05 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 129.5 |
| 11823.0 | 1882-05-15 | 1910-05-05 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 308.5 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 194 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 282 AF — 145% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 218 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 79 | 1.7 |
| 2011 | 133 | 7th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 52 | 1.7 |
| 2012 | 63 | 5th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 41 | 1.7 |
| 2013 | 101 | 6th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 37 | 1.7 |
| 2014 | 267 | 10th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 113 | 1.7 |
| 2015 | 331 | 13th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 111 | 1.7 |
| 2017 | 194 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 122 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 22 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 30 | 0.7 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 416 | 15th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 160 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 23 | 4th lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 14 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 283 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 148 | 1.8 |
| 2024 | 337 | 14th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 125 | 1.8 |
| 2025 | 282 | 11th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 170 | 1.8 |
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