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DIECKMAN DITCH NO 5

Structure dossier · WDID 1300698 · 1 · MACEY CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 1875-05-31 — 188th 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: VORIS & JARVIS DITCH 1 (1875-05-31). Immediately behind: BAKER DITCH NO 1 (1875-05-31).

Decreed rights (2)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
9282.01875-05-311896-03-12 0.20.0 CIRR 129
12575.01884-06-051896-03-12 0.20.0 CIRR 378

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 12 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 9 AF — 75% of that, and 5th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2003 17 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 23 0.4
2004 4 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median 11 0.2
2005 68 15th lowest of 15 · 567% of median 62 0.6
2006 2 2nd lowest of 15 · 17% of median 6 0.4
2007 23 14th lowest of 15 · 192% of median 51 0.2
2008 12 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 23 0.3
2009 15 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median 27 0.3
2010 1 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median 9 0.2
2014 17 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 45 0.2
2015 17 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 23 0.4
2016 8 4th lowest of 15 · 67% of median 17 0.3
2017 12 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 27 0.2
2019 11 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 30 0.2
2021 10 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 26 0.2
2023 9 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median 24 0.2

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