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GEORGES DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1301047 · 1 · MACEY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:25 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 1886-06-15 — 420th 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: F DIETRICH DITCH NO 4 (1886-06-10). Immediately behind: HILLSIDE DITCH (1886-06-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13315.0 | 1886-06-15 | 1896-03-12 | 0.81 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 409 |
Recorded use (last 7 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 54 AF — 100% of that, and 4th lowest of the 7 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 | 159 | 7th lowest of 7 · 294% of median | 128 | 0.8 |
| 1987 | 74 | 5th lowest of 7 · 137% of median | 47 | 0.8 |
| 1999 | 49 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 91% of median | 32 | 0.8 |
| 2004 | 17 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 32% of median | 12 | 0.8 |
| 2007 | 90 | 6th lowest of 7 · 167% of median | 58 | 0.8 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1st lowest of 7 · 28% of median | 33 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 54 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 40 | 0.8 |
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