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BAKER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2301025 · DITCH · GUERNSEY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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 1878-06-15 — 555th 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: 2303950 (1878-05-20). Immediately behind: 2300991 (1878-07-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10393.0 | 1878-06-15 | 1889-10-18 | 20.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRR | |
| 57343.57099 | 2006-05-01 | 2007-12-31 | 6.0 | 1.6 | C | STO |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 357 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 463 AF — 130% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 769 | 14th lowest of 15 · 215% of median | 44 | 10.0 |
| 1996 | 434 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 66 | 5.5 |
| 1997 | 485 | 12th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 57 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 357 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 71 | 3.5 |
| 1999 | 333 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 73 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 278 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 37 | 4.0 |
| 2003 | 77 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 24 | 1.8 |
| 2005 | 182 | 4th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 66 | 2.0 |
| 2006 | 48 | 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 16 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 214 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 64 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 99 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 48 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 857 | 15th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 164 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 547 | 13th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 133 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 389 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 165 | 2.5 |
| 2015 | 463 | 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 158 | 3.0 |
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