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REUTER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1300661 · 1 · NORTH BRANCH MIDDLE COLO · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:48 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 in line
Priority 1881-05-20 — 355th 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: MIDDLE DITCH S BRUSH (1881-05-15). Immediately behind: C BLEI DITCH NO 2 (1881-05-25).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11463.0 | 1881-05-20 | 1896-03-12 | 0.54 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 296 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 17 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 9 AF — 53% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 17 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 17 | 0.5 |
| 1938 | 50 | 14th lowest of 15 · 294% of median | 51 | 0.5 |
| 1952 | 82 | 15th lowest of 15 · 482% of median | 78 | 0.5 |
| 1969 | 18 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 24 | 0.4 |
| 1975 | 16 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 16 | 0.5 |
| 1979 | 29 | 11th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 29 | 0.6 |
| 1980 | 40 | 12th lowest of 15 · 235% of median | 38 | 0.6 |
| 1983 | 18 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 17 | 0.6 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 43 | 13th lowest of 15 · 253% of median | 43 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | 6th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 12 | 0.5 |
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