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SLOUGH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800685 · 1 · TOMICHI CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 1881-06-01 — 67th 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: BENNETT NO 2 DITCH (1881-06-01). Immediately behind: PISEL CANALS NOS 1&2 D (1881-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16192.11475 | 1881-06-01 | 1904-04-29 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 54 |
| 34076.11491 | 1881-06-17 | 1946-04-15 | 3.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 324 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 246 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 145 AF — 59% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 117 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 60 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 458 | 9th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 55 | 5.0 |
| 2005 | 1,068 | 14th lowest of 15 · 434% of median | 54 | 20.3 |
| 2008 | 916 | 13th lowest of 15 · 372% of median | 81 | 9.5 |
| 2009 | 641 | 12th lowest of 15 · 261% of median | 107 | 5.4 |
| 2011 | 192 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 53 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 211 | 6th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 64 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 246 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 59 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 638 | 11th lowest of 15 · 259% of median | 80 | 4.5 |
| 2017 | 2,658 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1080% of median | 128 | 12.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 142 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 99 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 617 | 10th lowest of 15 · 251% of median | 73 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 242 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 64 | 2.0 |
| 2025 | 145 | 4th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 76 | 1.0 |
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