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SOUTH DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 1601007 · 1 · BEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:20 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
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
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 1878-06-02 — 177th 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: GONZALES DITCH (1877-05-15). Immediately behind: ADAM YOUNG DITCH NO 2 (1882-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18915.1038 | 1878-06-02 | 1921-10-03 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 221 |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 38 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1989, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 44 | 8th lowest of 13 · 116% of median | 12 | 2.0 |
| 1945 | 127 | 12th lowest of 13 · 334% of median | 33 | 2.0 |
| 1948 | 121 | 10th lowest of 13 · 318% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 1949 | 121 | 10th lowest of 13 · 318% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 198 | 13th lowest of 13 · 521% of median | 68 | 2.0 |
| 1982 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1986 | 99 | 9th lowest of 13 · 260% of median | 29 | 2.0 |
| 1987 | 38 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 29 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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