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LORD DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 2901057 · 1 · SAN JUAN RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:28 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.

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 2006-08-10 — 714th 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: JACKSON SPRING AND SEEP (2005-04-29). Immediately behind: SEDLACEK SPRING (2006-08-30).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
57343.5722006-08-102007-12-31 0.250.25 CIRRFIRSTK

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 26 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 3 AF — 12% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 18 6th lowest of 15 · 69% of median 68 0.4
2012 26 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 88 0.5
2013 29 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 66 0.8
2014 41 12th lowest of 15 · 158% of median 128 0.2
2015 4 3rd lowest of 15 · 15% of median 31 0.1
2016 13 5th lowest of 15 · 50% of median 74 0.1
2017 21 7th lowest of 15 · 81% of median 79 0.2
2018 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 13 0.0
2019 27 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 62 0.6
2020 72 13th lowest of 15 · 277% of median 79 0.8
2021 35 11th lowest of 15 · 135% of median 122 0.3
2022 73 14th lowest of 15 · 281% of median 79 0.6
2023 133 15th lowest of 15 · 512% of median 142 0.5
2024 8 4th lowest of 15 · 31% of median 80 0.1
2025 3 2nd lowest of 15 · 12% of median 21 0.2

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.