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RADFORD WRIGHT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2300568 · DITCH · TWELVEMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:13 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
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 1882-03-21 — 645th most senior of the 21881 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: 0203840 (1870-05-20). Immediately behind: 2300767 (1882-03-21).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11768.0 | 1882-03-21 | 1889-10-18 | 9.0 | 0.0 | A | STOIRRRECFIS | |
| 11768.0 | 1882-03-21 | 1889-10-18 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRRECFIS |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 287 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 37 AF — 13% 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 | 287 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 103 | 3.8 |
| 2010 | 501 | 12th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 86 | 3.5 |
| 2011 | 357 | 9th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 40 | 4.8 |
| 2013 | 108 | 5th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 18 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 147 | 6th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 23 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 569 | 14th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 80 | 3.9 |
| 2016 | 388 | 10th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 55 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 462 | 11th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 67 | 3.8 |
| 2018 | 501 | 12th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 67 | 3.9 |
| 2019 | 635 | 15th lowest of 15 · 221% of median | 93 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 236 | 7th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 59 | 3.2 |
| 2021 | 43 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 45 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1st lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 28 | 0.6 |
| 2023 | 105 | 4th lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 89 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 37 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 48 | 0.7 |
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