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OWEN REDDEN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800668 · 1 · TOMICHI CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:30 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.
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 1879-11-30 — 11th 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: HIRDMAN DITCH NO 1 (1879-05-31). Immediately behind: MCCANNE NO 1 DITCH (1879-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10926.0 | 1879-11-30 | 1894-05-01 | 9.11 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 9&50 |
| 16192.1127 | 1880-11-08 | 1904-04-29 | 2.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 50 |
| 28311.10926 | 1879-11-30 | 1943-04-19 | 30.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 214 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,143 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,503 AF — 80% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3,681 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 105 | 37.7 |
| 2012 | 3,143 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 156 | 18.6 |
| 2013 | 3,475 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 134 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 2,701 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 54 | 27.2 |
| 2015 | 3,088 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 109 | 27.8 |
| 2016 | 3,171 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 68 | 32.3 |
| 2017 | 6,200 | 15th lowest of 15 · 197% of median | 104 | 47.0 |
| 2018 | 5,114 | 14th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 165 | 32.3 |
| 2019 | 4,058 | 13th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 68 | 47.8 |
| 2020 | 2,421 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 115 | 20.2 |
| 2021 | 1,846 | 1st lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 115 | 16.0 |
| 2022 | 4,014 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 155 | 20.8 |
| 2023 | 2,505 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 92 | 24.8 |
| 2024 | 3,097 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 101 | 23.0 |
| 2025 | 2,503 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 116 | 23.6 |
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