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HAGGART DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1200832 · 1 · COTTONWOOD 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 1875-08-31 — 197th 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: SOUTH DITCH (1875-07-01). Immediately behind: SIKES CYPERT & CHATHAM (1876-03-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9374.0 | 1875-08-31 | 1894-02-03 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 160 |
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 85 AF — 44% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 186 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 95 | 1.0 |
| 1972 | 101 | 4th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 52 | 1.0 |
| 1973 | 202 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 103 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 186 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 119 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 207 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 131 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 208 | 11th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 134 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 282 | 14th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 171 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 209 | 12th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 135 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 361 | 15th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 92 | 2.0 |
| 1986 | 89 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 46 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 85 | 1st lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 206 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 111 | 5th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 185 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 194 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 208 | 0.7 |
| 2024 | 231 | 13th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 209 | 0.9 |
| 2025 | 85 | 1st lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 175 | 0.6 |
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