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LOBDELL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800621 · 1 · TOMICHI CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:58 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 1913-05-15 — 484th 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: LOBDELL NO 2 DITCH (1912-05-01). Immediately behind: J M ELLIS NO 2 DITCH (1913-06-04).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24074.23145 | 1913-05-15 | 1918-09-03 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 176 |
| 28311.23145 | 1913-05-15 | 1943-04-19 | 5.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 299 |
| 28311.25719 | 1920-06-01 | 1943-04-19 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 315 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,023 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1997, came in at 1,250 AF — 122% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 408 | 1st lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 85 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 1,392 | 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 83 | 9.0 |
| 1985 | 486 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 38 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 656 | 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 70 | 6.0 |
| 1987 | 578 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 88 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 677 | 5th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 117 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 1,023 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 129 | 6.0 |
| 1990 | 797 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 142 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 2,484 | 15th lowest of 15 · 243% of median | 105 | 17.0 |
| 1992 | 1,428 | 13th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 105 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 1,389 | 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 94 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 1,023 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 63 | 10.0 |
| 1995 | 1,501 | 14th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 65 | 12.0 |
| 1996 | 1,392 | 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 79 | 9.0 |
| 1997 | 1,250 | 9th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 71 | 9.0 |
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