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LEGARD DITCH NO 10
Structure dossier · WDID 1301056 · 1 · NORTH ALVARADO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:50 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 in line
Priority 1889-05-31 — 448th 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 KUEHN DITCH NO 3 (1889-05-25). Immediately behind: K & M DITCH (1889-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14396.0 | 1889-05-31 | 1896-03-12 | 1.37 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 469 |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 40 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 95 AF — 238% of that, and 9th lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 116 | 10th lowest of 11 · 290% of median | 46 | 1.3 |
| 2003 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 8% of median | 3 | 0.9 |
| 2005 | 12 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 30% of median | 7 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 54 | 7th lowest of 11 · 135% of median | 23 | 1.4 |
| 2008 | 117 | 11th lowest of 11 · 292% of median | 52 | 1.4 |
| 2009 | 27 | 5th lowest of 11 · 68% of median | 20 | 0.8 |
| 2010 | 40 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 24 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 61 | 8th lowest of 11 · 152% of median | 35 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 16 | 4th lowest of 11 · 40% of median | 8 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 95 | 9th lowest of 11 · 238% of median | 38 | 1.4 |
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