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YANKEE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1300514 · 1 · SOUTH COLONY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:17 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 1880-04-15 — 301st most senior of the 1017 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: F RIVIERE DITCH NO 6 (1880-04-10). Immediately behind: MIDDLE DITCH (N GRAPE) (1880-04-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11063.0 | 1880-04-15 | 1896-03-12 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 238 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 254 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 272 AF — 107% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 436 | 14th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 58 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 571 | 15th lowest of 15 · 225% of median | 74 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 175 | 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 26 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 169 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 25 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 156 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 77 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 200 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 33 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 273 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 41 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 286 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 37 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 409 | 13th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 57 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 254 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 34 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 113 | 1st lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 21 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 396 | 12th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 62 | 4.0 |
| 2022 | 241 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 55 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 224 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 48 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 272 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 66 | 4.0 |
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