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LIKELY & MCCORMICK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1300952 · 1 · TEXAS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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 1871-06-01 — 43rd 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: W A BELL DITCH NO 3 (1871-06-01). Immediately behind: VAHLDICK DITCH NO 2 (1871-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7822.0 | 1871-06-01 | 1894-02-03 | 0.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 5 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 104 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 96 AF — 92% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 290 | 13th lowest of 15 · 279% of median | 114 | 1.3 |
| 1988 | 376 | 15th lowest of 15 · 362% of median | 146 | 1.3 |
| 1989 | 266 | 11th lowest of 15 · 256% of median | 154 | 0.9 |
| 1994 | 232 | 10th lowest of 15 · 223% of median | 91 | 1.3 |
| 1995 | 280 | 12th lowest of 15 · 269% of median | 141 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 45 | 4th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 47 | 0.5 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 104 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 71 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 55 | 6th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 48 | 0.8 |
| 2004 | 108 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 111 | 0.5 |
| 2005 | 369 | 14th lowest of 15 · 355% of median | 150 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 50 | 5th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 58 | 0.4 |
| 2014 | 96 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 71 | 0.7 |
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