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REID DITCH NO 3
Structure dossier · WDID 1700691 · 1 · LITTLE HORSE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:35 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 1939-12-31 — 1643rd most senior of the 1909 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: REID DITCH NO 2 (1939-12-31). Immediately behind: REID SPRING NO 1 (1946-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44194.32871 | 1939-12-31 | 1971-12-31 | 4.16 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
W0328.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0328 | 1 | 1971-12-31 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 5 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 16 AF — 320% of that, and 11th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 20% of median | 2 | 0.8 |
| 2004 | 12 | 9th lowest of 12 · 240% of median | 9 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 2 | 4th lowest of 12 · 40% of median | 4 | 0.9 |
| 2010 | 12 | 9th lowest of 12 · 240% of median | 5 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 20 | 12th lowest of 12 · 400% of median | 5 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 20% of median | 2 | 0.3 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5th lowest of 12 · 60% of median | 4 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 6 | 8th lowest of 12 · 120% of median | 4 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.2 |
| 2020 | 5 | 6th lowest of 12 · 100% of median | 3 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 5 | 6th lowest of 12 · 100% of median | 2 | 2.5 |
| 2023 | 16 | 11th lowest of 12 · 320% of median | 3 | 4.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 12 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | fragment | 45 measured day(s) on file (under 180 -- a season, not a history) |
| record continuity | unknown | record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days) |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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