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JOHN DUCKETT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1301031 · 1 · NORTH LAKE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:40 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 1878-05-15 — 256th 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: SQUIRE DITCH (1878-05-01). Immediately behind: ST ALMO DITCH (1878-06-01).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10362.0 | 1878-05-15 | 1894-02-03 | 3.94 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 46 |
| 11808.0 | 1882-04-30 | 1894-02-03 | 0.263 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 75 |
| 12914.0 | 1885-05-10 | 1894-02-03 | 0.263 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 87 |
| 14974.0 | 1890-12-30 | 1894-02-03 | 0.526 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 113 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
02/03/1894.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
02/03/1894 | 4 | 1894-02-03 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 242 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 242 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 22 | 1st lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 16 | 0.8 |
| 2003 | 208 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 45 | 4.0 |
| 2005 | 282 | 10th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 57 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 305 | 13th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 40 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 217 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 66 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 300 | 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 61 | 4.3 |
| 2014 | 241 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 53 | 3.1 |
| 2015 | 248 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 33 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 756 | 15th lowest of 15 · 312% of median | 130 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 325 | 14th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 43 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 63 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 17 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 167 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 22 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 180 | 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 30 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 299 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 44 | 4.9 |
| 2024 | 242 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 36 | 4.9 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3936 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 17% of the irrigation seasons in 1917-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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