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CHACON & ESPINOSA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1900587 · 1 · PURGATOIRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 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 1863-06-30 — 23rd most senior of the 735 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: DOLORES DURAN DITCH (1863-02-01). Immediately behind: PULASKI DITCH (1863-06-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4929.0 | 1863-06-30 | 1903-08-10 | 0.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 12 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 86 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 20 AF — 23% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 45 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 46 | 0.9 |
| 2010 | 46 | 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 44 | 0.9 |
| 2012 | 107 | 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 69 | 0.9 |
| 2013 | 132 | 13th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 89 | 0.9 |
| 2014 | 135 | 14th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 104 | 0.9 |
| 2015 | 96 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 75 | 0.9 |
| 2016 | 89 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 76 | 0.9 |
| 2017 | 83 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 63 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 23 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 71 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 55 | 0.9 |
| 2020 | 73 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 60 | 0.9 |
| 2021 | 106 | 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 77 | 0.9 |
| 2022 | 86 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 69 | 0.9 |
| 2023 | 136 | 15th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 76 | 1.9 |
| 2024 | 20 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 23 | 0.9 |
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