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JENNINGS ELSEN DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 2800599 · 1 · TOMICHI CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 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 1885-12-31 — 26th most senior of the 1505 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: OWEN NO 2 DITCH (1885-05-31). Immediately behind: VADER RAUSIS DITCH (1885-12-31).

Decreed rights (6)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
13149.01885-12-311894-05-01 0.00.0 CIRR 22
16192.13241886-04-011904-04-29 0.00.0 CIRR 82
19052.01902-03-011904-04-29 0.00.0 CIRR 128
28311.131491885-12-311943-04-19 2.30.0 CIRR 246
28311.13241886-04-011943-04-19 0.00.0 CIRR 247
28311.190521902-03-011943-04-19 0.00.0 CIRR 296

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 335 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 543 AF — 162% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2008 335 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 71 4.0
2011 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2012 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 10 0.0
2013 311 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 106 2.2
2014 1,694 14th lowest of 15 · 506% of median 61 18.2
2015 2,757 15th lowest of 15 · 823% of median 73 25.0
2016 426 9th lowest of 15 · 127% of median 60 4.0
2017 942 13th lowest of 15 · 281% of median 97 8.0
2019 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2020 169 5th lowest of 15 · 50% of median 57 2.0
2021 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2022 194 6th lowest of 15 · 58% of median 102 1.0
2023 631 12th lowest of 15 · 188% of median 107 3.0
2024 528 10th lowest of 15 · 158% of median 114 4.0
2025 543 11th lowest of 15 · 162% of median 141 2.0

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