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BAKER POTTER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1200851 · 1 · BIG COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:47 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 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 1880-03-15 — 248th 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: DAGGETT DITCH (1880-03-15). Immediately behind: SMITH DITCH NO 2 (BEAR) (1880-04-10).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11032.0 | 1880-03-15 | 1902-12-01 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 221 |
| 12127.0 | 1883-03-15 | 1902-05-05 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 282A |
| 19312.18999 | 1902-01-07 | 1902-12-01 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 411 |
| 19312.19005 | 1902-01-13 | 1902-12-01 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 412 |
| 19312.19015 | 1902-01-23 | 1902-12-01 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 413 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,255 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,559 AF — 124% of that, and 12th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,753 | 14th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 207 | 6.4 |
| 2012 | 1,049 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 120 | 6.1 |
| 2013 | 1,511 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 157 | 6.3 |
| 2014 | 1,385 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 148 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 1,204 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 156 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 419 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 55 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 314 | 1st lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 90 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 487 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 92 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 743 | 4th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 183 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 1,255 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 168 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 1,654 | 13th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 217 | 4.5 |
| 2022 | 755 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 181 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 1,317 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 221 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 2,201 | 15th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 333 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 1,559 | 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 243 | 6.0 |
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