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J HEIN DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 1300540 · 1 · NORTH BRANCH MIDDLE COLO · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1874-07-01 — 158th 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: BOWLING DITCH (1874-06-30). Immediately behind: WM CONRADTS DITCH NO 4 (1874-07-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8948.0 | 1874-07-01 | 1896-03-12 | 0.27 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 101 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 29 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 26 AF — 90% of that, and 5th 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 | 18 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 35 | 0.3 |
| 2011 | 29 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 61 | 0.3 |
| 2012 | 14 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 29 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 24 | 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 47 | 0.3 |
| 2014 | 43 | 14th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 82 | 0.3 |
| 2015 | 27 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 53 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 34 | 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 65 | 0.3 |
| 2017 | 47 | 15th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 89 | 0.3 |
| 2018 | 6 | 1st lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 14 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 41 | 12th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 77 | 0.3 |
| 2020 | 27 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 46 | 0.3 |
| 2021 | 36 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 68 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 40 | 11th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 75 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 41 | 12th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 78 | 0.3 |
| 2024 | 26 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 50 | 0.3 |
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