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TARBELL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2804656 · 1 · COCHETOPA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 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 1914-06-20 — 487th 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: J M ELLIS NO 3 DITCH (1913-06-04). Immediately behind: SNYDER ROUSER DITCH (1915-05-01).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24074.23546 | 1914-06-20 | 1918-09-03 | 25.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 179 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 562 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 686 AF — 122% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 1,179 | 15th lowest of 15 · 210% of median | 143 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 892 | 14th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 104 | 10.0 |
| 2009 | 505 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 81 | 5.4 |
| 2010 | 603 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 99 | 9.9 |
| 2011 | 521 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 87 | 7.3 |
| 2012 | 202 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 58 | 11.9 |
| 2013 | 424 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 123 | 5.1 |
| 2014 | 864 | 13th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 116 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 496 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 139 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 165 | 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 171 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 630 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 106 | 6.8 |
| 2022 | 562 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 128 | 4.2 |
| 2023 | 317 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 54 | 4.8 |
| 2024 | 815 | 12th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 134 | 7.8 |
| 2025 | 686 | 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 133 | 6.7 |
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