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HUERFANO VALLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1400657 · 1 · HUERFANO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:30 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 1888-02-02 — 33rd most senior of the 1358 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: KINSEY DITCH (1874-04-15). Immediately behind: HUERFANO VALLEY RES (1888-02-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14408.13912 | 1888-02-02 | 1898-02-23 | 42.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 0 |
| 20209.0 | 1905-05-01 | 1921-10-03 | 18.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 342 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,117 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,087 AF — 97% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 363 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 39 | 47.1 |
| 2012 | 42 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 9 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 620 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 85 | 42.0 |
| 2014 | 1,272 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 69 | 38.9 |
| 2015 | 2,829 | 14th lowest of 15 · 253% of median | 132 | 25.9 |
| 2016 | 1,775 | 12th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 215 | 23.0 |
| 2017 | 5,289 | 15th lowest of 15 · 474% of median | 300 | 278.0 |
| 2018 | 970 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 304 | 38.9 |
| 2019 | 2,575 | 13th lowest of 15 · 230% of median | 191 | 46.8 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 1,117 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 22.8 |
| 2022 | 892 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 364 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 1,560 | 11th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 365 | 88.3 |
| 2024 | 1,395 | 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 365 | 34.6 |
| 2025 | 1,087 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 304 | 51.1 |
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