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ROMERO DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1900642 · 1 · FRIJOLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1918-05-16 — 184th 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: BARBER DITCH (1917-02-03). Immediately behind: GYURMAN WELL NO 1 (1919-01-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24972.0 | 1918-05-16 | 1925-01-12 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 235 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 40 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 242 | 13th lowest of 15 · 605% of median | 62 | 2.0 |
| 1945 | 323 | 14th lowest of 15 · 808% of median | 123 | 1.5 |
| 1949 | 30 | 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 64 | 0.2 |
| 1953 | 452 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1130% of median | 77 | 3.0 |
| 1955 | 151 | 11th lowest of 15 · 378% of median | 23 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 135 | 10th lowest of 15 · 338% of median | 18 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 1971 | 42 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 90 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | 5th lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 2 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 2 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 2 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 175 | 12th lowest of 15 · 438% of median | 36 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 3 | 4th lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 2 | 1.5 |
| 1999 | 32 | 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 17 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 40 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 14 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
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