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BALLEJOS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1600571 · 1 · CUCHARAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:38 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 1868-04-01 — 41st most senior of the 1044 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: FRANCISCO DAIGRE HUAJATO (1866-05-30). Immediately behind: STONEWALL DITCH (1868-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6666.0 | 1868-04-01 | 1889-06-12 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 8 |
| 7031.0 | 1869-04-01 | 1889-06-12 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 13 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 464 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 312 AF — 67% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 265 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 7 | 180 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 503 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | — | 241 | 3.2 |
| 2013 | 275 | 5th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | — | 217 | 3.1 |
| 2014 | 523 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | — | 209 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 460 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | — | 156 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 43 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 9% of median | — | 67 | 2.6 |
| 2017 | 1,120 | 15th lowest of 15 · 241% of median | — | 169 | 308.0 |
| 2018 | 624 | 12th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | — | 246 | 3.3 |
| 2019 | 699 | 14th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | — | 218 | 3.3 |
| 2020 | 525 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | — | 233 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 464 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 117 | 3.3 |
| 2022 | 97 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 21% of median | — | 41 | 3.3 |
| 2023 | 677 | 13th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | — | 149 | 4.6 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 312 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | — | 59 | 3.0 |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.