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PRUITT SOUTH SIDE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1900737 · 1 · WILDCAT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 1895-04-08 — 138th 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: PARSONS DITCH NO 1 (1895-04-04). Immediately behind: PARSONS DITCH NO 2 (1895-04-08).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19579.16534 | 1895-04-08 | 1925-01-12 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 134 |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 89 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1987, came in at 70 AF — 79% of that, and 5th lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1965 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 40% of median | 10 | 2.0 |
| 1967 | 67 | 4th lowest of 11 · 75% of median | 18 | 2.0 |
| 1969 | 15 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 17% of median | 6 | 1.5 |
| 1970 | 135 | 9th lowest of 11 · 152% of median | 153 | 2.0 |
| 1973 | 113 | 7th lowest of 11 · 127% of median | 61 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 446 | 11th lowest of 11 · 501% of median | 51 | 4.5 |
| 1984 | 148 | 10th lowest of 11 · 166% of median | 108 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 132 | 8th lowest of 11 · 148% of median | 109 | 2.0 |
| 1986 | 89 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 182 | 0.2 |
| 1987 | 70 | 5th lowest of 11 · 79% of median | 77 | 1.0 |
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