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YOUCH DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 1300939 · 1 · COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 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 1876-06-10 — 237th 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: HILTMAN & FALKENBERG #2 (1876-06-10). Immediately behind: AMBROSE DITCH NO 10 (1876-06-11).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
9658.01876-06-101896-03-12 0.830.0 CIRR 174A

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 54 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 11 AF — 20% of that, and 2nd 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)
1998 122 15th lowest of 15 · 226% of median 75 0.8
1999 110 14th lowest of 15 · 204% of median 72 0.8
2000 52 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 53 0.5
2001 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2003 17 5th lowest of 15 · 32% of median 14 0.7
2004 67 9th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 44 0.8
2005 100 13th lowest of 15 · 185% of median 62 0.8
2007 69 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median 44 0.8
2008 84 12th lowest of 15 · 156% of median 54 0.8
2009 33 6th lowest of 15 · 61% of median 23 0.8
2015 12 3rd lowest of 15 · 22% of median 10 0.8
2017 54 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 35 0.8
2019 78 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median 50 0.8
2021 14 4th lowest of 15 · 26% of median 11 0.8
2024 11 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median 10 0.8

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.