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DUTTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2902005 · 1 · FOURMILE 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 (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 1909-06-03 — 150th 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: HALLETT DITCH (1909-05-29). Immediately behind: DUTTON DITCH ALT PT (1909-06-03).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21703.0 | 1909-06-03 | 1912-11-13 | 12.85 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #173 |
| 36656.0 | 1950-05-12 | 1962-04-19 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | #341 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,348 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 522 AF — 39% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 1,334 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 166 | 14.2 |
| 2009 | 1,270 | 4th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 180 | 8.6 |
| 2010 | 1,257 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 233 | 7.2 |
| 2012 | 275 | 1st lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 61 | 3.5 |
| 2013 | 2,360 | 13th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 305 | 15.0 |
| 2014 | 1,326 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 269 | 6.0 |
| 2015 | 2,009 | 12th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 296 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 1,357 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 262 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 1,518 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 269 | 7.0 |
| 2018 | 1,307 | 5th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 196 | 6.0 |
| 2019 | 2,773 | 14th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 287 | 18.4 |
| 2020 | 1,348 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 274 | 10.0 |
| 2021 | 1,945 | 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 232 | 14.5 |
| 2022 | 3,007 | 15th lowest of 15 · 223% of median | 365 | 9.0 |
| 2023 | 522 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 185 | 5.0 |
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