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CARTER DITCH EXTENSION
Structure dossier · WDID 3000522 · 1 · ELBERT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 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 in line
Priority 1895-03-01 — 354th most senior of the 2277 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: THORNTON-SMITH DITCH (1895-01-01). Immediately behind: ROSA WALDNER DITCH (1896-09-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16496.0 | 1895-03-01 | 1923-11-08 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | E-10 |
| 43829.40359 | 1960-07-01 | 1970-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISDOM |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 387 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 211 AF — 54% of that, and 5th 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 | 387 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 1.7 |
| 2012 | 203 | 4th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 366 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 359 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 365 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 475 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 365 | 1.6 |
| 2015 | 577 | 14th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 365 | 2.4 |
| 2016 | 543 | 13th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 360 | 2.3 |
| 2017 | 500 | 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 365 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 154 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 874 | 15th lowest of 15 · 226% of median | 365 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 515 | 12th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 344 | 2.4 |
| 2021 | 136 | 1st lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 365 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 173 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2023 | 390 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 365 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 255 | 6th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 366 | 0.9 |
| 2025 | 211 | 5th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 304 | 0.8 |
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