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CHETELAT DITCH NO 3
Structure dossier · WDID 1300587 · 1 · GRAPE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 1880-05-25 — 312th 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: MORITZ BRANDENBURG NO 3 (1880-05-20). Immediately behind: BLUFF DITCH (1880-05-25).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11103.0 | 1880-05-25 | 1896-03-12 | 1.87 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 251 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 69 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 29 AF — 42% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 75 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 22 | 1.8 |
| 1998 | 129 | 13th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 37 | 1.8 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 69 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 36 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 131 | 14th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 39 | 1.8 |
| 2007 | 176 | 15th lowest of 15 · 255% of median | 61 | 1.9 |
| 2008 | 119 | 12th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 35 | 1.9 |
| 2009 | 100 | 10th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 31 | 1.9 |
| 2010 | 41 | 7th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 15 | 1.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | 4th lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 10 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 37 | 6th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 25 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 104 | 11th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 58 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 1 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 2 | 0.5 |
| 2021 | 29 | 5th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 45 | 0.3 |
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