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VADER RAUSIS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800709 · 1 · TOMICHI CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:58 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 1885-12-31 — 27th 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: JENNINGS ELSEN DITCH (1885-12-31). Immediately behind: ARCH IRRIGATING DITCH (1887-12-31).
Decreed rights (8)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13149.0 | 1885-12-31 | 1894-05-01 | 3.09 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 16192.10014 | 1877-06-01 | 1904-04-29 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 33 |
| 16192.1324 | 1886-04-01 | 1904-04-29 | 0.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 19052.0 | 1902-03-01 | 1904-04-29 | 0.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 28311.10014 | 1877-06-01 | 1943-04-19 | 3.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 201 |
| 28311.13149 | 1885-12-31 | 1943-04-19 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 246 |
| 28311.1324 | 1886-04-01 | 1943-04-19 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 28311.19052 | 1902-03-01 | 1943-04-19 | 3.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
10 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
W3412, CA2079, 91CW0123, 07CW0155, CA1266.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W3412 | 6 | 1943-04-19 | O, S |
CA2079 | 1 | 1943-04-19 | S |
91CW0123 | 1 | 1943-04-19 | S |
07CW0155 | 1 | 1943-04-19 | S |
CA1266 | 1 | 1904-04-29 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,421 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 490 AF — 34% of that, and 2nd 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 | 1,353 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 88 | 11.3 |
| 2012 | 328 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 29 | 10.2 |
| 2013 | 1,491 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 67 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 2,817 | 15th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 102 | 18.6 |
| 2015 | 1,601 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 94 | 15.6 |
| 2016 | 1,421 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 59 | 13.9 |
| 2017 | 1,578 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 94 | 10.5 |
| 2018 | 1,077 | 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 65 | 16.4 |
| 2019 | 2,357 | 14th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 94 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 1,835 | 13th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 89 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 654 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 102 | 7.1 |
| 2022 | 1,065 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 90 | 10.6 |
| 2023 | 1,641 | 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 99 | 17.3 |
| 2024 | 1,127 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 120 | 15.0 |
| 2025 | 490 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 73 | 5.7 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 8 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4878 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 41% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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