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GIBSON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2300993 · DITCH · MICHIGAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (e70d0b5) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Current administration
● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).
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 1880-09-15 — 618th 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: 2300503 (1880-08-01). Immediately behind: 2300630 (1880-09-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11216.0 | 1880-09-15 | 1889-10-18 | 2.46 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 11894.0 | 1882-07-25 | 1889-10-18 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 333 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 479 AF — 144% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 228 | 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 56 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 389 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 45 | 4.5 |
| 2012 | 48 | 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 13 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 155 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 47 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 317 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 55 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 503 | 15th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 66 | 4.5 |
| 2016 | 315 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 44 | 4.5 |
| 2017 | 440 | 13th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 90 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 285 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 45 | 4.5 |
| 2019 | 383 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 77 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 374 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 59 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 423 | 12th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 82 | 4.5 |
| 2022 | 114 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 33 | 2.7 |
| 2023 | 333 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 71 | 4.6 |
| 2024 | 479 | 14th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 88 | 4.5 |
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