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YOUNG DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2900758 · 1 · EAST FORK SAN JUAN RIVER · 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 (a1c9146) — 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 1940-05-15 — 214th most senior of the 853 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: W FK SUMMER HOME GROUP D (1938-08-15). Immediately behind: YOUNG DITCH AP (1940-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33007.0 | 1940-05-15 | 1962-04-19 | 2.3125 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | #316 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 148 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2007, came in at 387 AF — 262% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 66 | 5th lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 102 | 0.9 |
| 1992 | 134 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 96 | 1.6 |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 148 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 42 | 1.9 |
| 1997 | 261 | 10th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 71 | 3.0 |
| 1998 | 221 | 9th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 53 | 2.2 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 355 | 12th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 65 | 3.7 |
| 2001 | 142 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 30 | 2.9 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 17 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 262 | 11th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 104 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 474 | 14th lowest of 15 · 320% of median | 82 | 4.6 |
| 2006 | 814 | 15th lowest of 15 · 550% of median | 121 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 387 | 13th lowest of 15 · 262% of median | 62 | 5.7 |
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