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ALLEN (CHERRY) DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1200790 · 1 · CHERRY 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 1877-06-30 — 211th 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: ALLEN (HARDSCRABBLE) DITCH (1877-03-16). Immediately behind: JACKSON DITCH (1877-06-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10043.0 | 1877-06-30 | 1894-02-03 | 1.146 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 190 |
| 11869.0 | 1882-06-30 | 1894-02-03 | 1.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 275 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 303 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 192 AF — 63% of that, and 6th 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 | 419 | 13th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 180 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 196 | 7th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 211 | 1.2 |
| 2012 | 85 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 205 | 1.1 |
| 2013 | 128 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 172 | 2.2 |
| 2014 | 171 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 180 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 383 | 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 143 | 3.1 |
| 2016 | 359 | 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 174 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 350 | 10th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 196 | 2.7 |
| 2019 | 936 | 15th lowest of 15 · 309% of median | 156 | 4.1 |
| 2020 | 50 | 1st lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 127 | 0.8 |
| 2021 | 340 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 169 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 189 | 5th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 149 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 478 | 14th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 185 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 303 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 177 | 1.5 |
| 2025 | 192 | 6th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 169 | 1.4 |
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