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LEGARD DITCH NO 13
Structure dossier · WDID 1300817 · 1 · NORTH ALVARADO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:44 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 1874-10-31 — 169th 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: C R H DITCH (1874-10-10). Immediately behind: LEGARD DITCH NO 8 (1874-10-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9070.0 | 1874-10-31 | 1896-03-12 | 0.97 | 0.0 | C | DOM | 111 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 57 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 35 AF — 61% of that, and 3rd 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 | 26 | 1st lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 14 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 134 | 15th lowest of 15 · 235% of median | 46 | 1.5 |
| 2003 | 36 | 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 13 | 1.8 |
| 2005 | 43 | 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 21 | 1.9 |
| 2007 | 131 | 14th lowest of 15 · 230% of median | 51 | 1.9 |
| 2008 | 52 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 18 | 1.9 |
| 2010 | 57 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 26 | 1.7 |
| 2014 | 30 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 18 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 73 | 9th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 41 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 75 | 10th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 45 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 77 | 11th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 44 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 39 | 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 21 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 86 | 13th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 48 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 82 | 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 35 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 22 | 1.0 |
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