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FISCHER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3000547 · 1 · HERMOSA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:30 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.
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 1876-04-01 — 115th 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: SCHLITTGEN PUMP SITE (1876-01-01). Immediately behind: POMONA DITCH (1876-04-01).
Decreed rights (9)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9588.0 | 1876-04-01 | 1923-11-08 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | H-4 |
| 10289.0 | 1878-03-03 | 1923-11-08 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | H-8 |
| 10877.0 | 1879-10-12 | 1923-11-08 | 0.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H-9 |
| 10881.0 | 1879-10-16 | 1923-11-08 | 0.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H-11 |
| 11764.0 | 1882-03-17 | 1923-11-08 | 0.333 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H-14 |
| 13574.0 | 1887-03-01 | 1923-11-08 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | H-18 |
| 17046.0 | 1896-09-01 | 1923-11-08 | 0.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H-21 |
| 48577.47268 | 1979-06-01 | 1983-12-31 | 0.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 56956.0 | 2005-12-09 | 2005-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.5 | C | IRRRECFISFIREVP |
Legal record & documents
14 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
05CW0075, 83CW0122, W1358, W1347, CA1751.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
05CW0075 | 1 | 2005-12-31 | S |
83CW0122 | 1 | 1983-12-31 | S |
W1358 | 1 | 1923-11-08 | O |
W1347 | 3 | 1923-11-08 | O |
CA1751 | 8 | 1923-11-08 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 471 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 383 AF — 81% of that, and 4th 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 | 471 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 315 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 459 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 219 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 410 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 286 | 1.9 |
| 2014 | 526 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 245 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 545 | 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 302 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 478 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 209 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 333 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 181 | 2.5 |
| 2018 | 265 | 1st lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 153 | 1.8 |
| 2019 | 286 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 151 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 446 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 244 | 2.6 |
| 2021 | 619 | 13th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 339 | 2.5 |
| 2022 | 714 | 15th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 292 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 527 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 354 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 636 | 14th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 345 | 2.7 |
| 2025 | 383 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 220 | 1.9 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 9 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 17022 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 79% of the irrigation seasons in 1925-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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