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GEORGE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1200752 · 1 · WEST FOURMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:13 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 1870-06-01 — 78th 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: FIBERBOARD PROD WELL 4 (1870-05-31). Immediately behind: DORIS DITCH (1870-06-07).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7457.0 | 1870-06-01 | 1894-02-03 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRALL | 55 |
| 8553.0 | 1873-06-01 | 1894-02-03 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRRALL | 123 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 114 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 99 AF — 87% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 564 | 14th lowest of 15 · 495% of median | 206 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 2 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 18 | 0.8 |
| 1990 | 809 | 15th lowest of 15 · 710% of median | 163 | 3.3 |
| 1993 | 170 | 10th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 85 | 2.0 |
| 1994 | 452 | 13th lowest of 15 · 396% of median | 115 | 2.0 |
| 1995 | 321 | 12th lowest of 15 · 282% of median | 75 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 67 | 4th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 120 | 0.4 |
| 1998 | 69 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 116 | 0.8 |
| 1999 | 140 | 9th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 94 | 0.8 |
| 2000 | 225 | 11th lowest of 15 · 197% of median | 87 | 2.2 |
| 2001 | 114 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 84 | 1.3 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2007 | 27 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 22 | 0.6 |
| 2008 | 72 | 6th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 51 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 99 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 115 | 1.8 |
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