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WATER WITCH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3000672 · 1 · JUNCTION 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 1882-05-05 — 314th 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: ALPINE MEADOWS WATER SYS (1882-04-15). Immediately behind: COVERT DITCH (1882-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11813.0 | 1882-05-05 | 1923-11-08 | 0.1667 | 0.0 | C | IRR | J-10 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 33 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1959, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 33 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 167 | 0.1 |
| 1946 | 41 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 210 | 0.1 |
| 1947 | 45 | 14th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 230 | 0.1 |
| 1948 | 33 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 170 | 0.1 |
| 1949 | 41 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 206 | 0.1 |
| 1950 | 45 | 14th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 230 | 0.1 |
| 1951 | 29 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 146 | 0.1 |
| 1952 | 18 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 185 | 0.1 |
| 1953 | 26 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 133 | 0.1 |
| 1954 | 41 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 207 | 0.1 |
| 1955 | 36 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 184 | 0.1 |
| 1956 | 27 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 138 | 0.1 |
| 1957 | 29 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 147 | 0.1 |
| 1958 | 33 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 169 | 0.1 |
| 1959 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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