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JOHN GRIBBLE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1600794 · 1 · WAHATOYA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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 1883-04-10 — 130th 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: KERBY DITCH (1883-02-01). Immediately behind: GALVAN DITCH (1883-04-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14408.12153 | 1883-04-10 | 1898-02-23 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 91 |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 67 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924 | 241 | 11th lowest of 13 · 360% of median | 77 | 1.6 |
| 1935 | 25 | 4th lowest of 13 · 37% of median | 9 | 1.6 |
| 1940 | 54 | 6th lowest of 13 · 81% of median | 18 | 1.6 |
| 1941 | 67 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 22 | 1.6 |
| 1942 | 83 | 8th lowest of 13 · 124% of median | 27 | 1.6 |
| 1944 | 264 | 12th lowest of 13 · 394% of median | 103 | 1.6 |
| 1945 | 264 | 12th lowest of 13 · 394% of median | 103 | 1.6 |
| 1948 | 226 | 9th lowest of 13 · 337% of median | 77 | 1.5 |
| 1949 | 226 | 9th lowest of 13 · 337% of median | 77 | 1.5 |
| 1964 | 45 | 5th lowest of 13 · 67% of median | 16 | 1.5 |
| 1976 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 41 | 0.0 |
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