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HOULE DITCH NO 5
Structure dossier · WDID 1300987 · 1 · NORTH BRUSH 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 1877-06-01 — 250th 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: WM KNUTH DITCH NO 2 (1877-05-31). Immediately behind: WM KNUTH DITCH NO 3 (1877-06-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10014.0 | 1877-06-01 | 1894-02-03 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 43 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 42 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 38 AF — 90% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 260 | 15th lowest of 15 · 619% of median | 131 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 109 | 14th lowest of 15 · 260% of median | 56 | 1.0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 29 | 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 30 | 0.5 |
| 1999 | 87 | 13th lowest of 15 · 207% of median | 45 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 20 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 11 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 41 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 49 | 0.5 |
| 2008 | 42 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 37 | 0.6 |
| 2010 | 20 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 11 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 52 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 41 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 46 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 25 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 63 | 12th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 33 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 58 | 11th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 30 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 38 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 20 | 1.0 |
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