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THOMAS BALMAN DITCH NO 4
Structure dossier · WDID 1301013 · 1 · KOCH SPRING BRANCH BRUSH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:29 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 1880-05-31 — 318th 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: ADAMS DITCH NO 2 (1880-05-31). Immediately behind: F ACKLEBEIN DITCH NO 3 (1880-05-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11109.0 | 1880-05-31 | 1894-02-03 | 0.875 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 56 |
| 21948.16191 | 1894-04-30 | 1910-04-14 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 118 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 226 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 396 AF — 175% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 220 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 149 | 0.8 |
| 2011 | 127 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 81 | 0.8 |
| 2012 | 101 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 56 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 180 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 94 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 193 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 140 | 0.8 |
| 2015 | 350 | 13th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 195 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 327 | 12th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 220 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 226 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 177 | 0.8 |
| 2018 | 40 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 22 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 321 | 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 182 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 38 | 1st lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 17 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 251 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 130 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 293 | 10th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 212 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 437 | 15th lowest of 15 · 193% of median | 199 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 396 | 14th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 210 | 1.3 |
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