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SALAZAR & RINCON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1900693 · 1 · RINCON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 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 1876-12-31 — 130th 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: CROOKED CREEK DITCH NO 3 (1874-06-01). Immediately behind: CHERRY CREEK DITCH (1882-09-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19579.09862 | 1876-12-31 | 1925-01-12 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 120 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 48 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1999, came in at 8 AF — 17% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 48 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 12 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 801 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1669% of median | 102 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 79 | 9th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 16 | 4.0 |
| 1968 | 48 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 10 | 4.0 |
| 1969 | 294 | 13th lowest of 15 · 612% of median | 100 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 1971 | 87 | 10th lowest of 15 · 181% of median | 304 | 8.0 |
| 1987 | 313 | 14th lowest of 15 · 652% of median | 77 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 16 | 5th lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 3 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 222 | 11th lowest of 15 · 462% of median | 29 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 8 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 4 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 26 | 6th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 8 | 3.0 |
| 1997 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 2 | 3.0 |
| 1998 | 238 | 12th lowest of 15 · 496% of median | 31 | 4.0 |
| 1999 | 8 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 2 | 4.0 |
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