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CANONCITA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1900627 · 1 · CANONCITA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:36 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 1902-03-07 — 143rd 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: DANIEL DITCH (1899-05-30). Immediately behind: QUINTANILLA DITCH (1903-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19579.19058 | 1902-03-07 | 1925-01-12 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 140 |
Recorded use (last 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 50 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1983, came in at 8 AF — 16% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 603 | 7th lowest of 7 · 1206% of median | 77 | 4.0 |
| 1954 | 50 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 7 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 208 | 6th lowest of 7 · 416% of median | 25 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 111 | 5th lowest of 7 · 222% of median | 29 | 2.0 |
| 1970 | 0 | 1st lowest of 7 · 0% of median | 30 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 10 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 20% of median | 2 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 8 | 2nd lowest of 7 · 16% of median | 2 | 4.1 |
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