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ABLING AND CASH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3001001 · 1 · FLORIDA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 04:34 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 1878-06-01 — 148th 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: HC-5E WELL(DGO SKI) (1878-03-03). Immediately behind: PRESCOTT SOUTH SIDE D (1878-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10379.0 | 1878-06-01 | 1923-11-08 | 0.1094 | 0.0 | C | IRR | F-4 |
| 12188.0 | 1883-05-15 | 1923-11-08 | 0.0904 | 0.0 | C | IRR | F-15 |
Legal record & documents
11 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
CA1751, 95CW0045, 85CW0039, 14CW3013, 08CW0049, 04CW0070.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1751 | 2 | 1923-11-08 | O |
95CW0045 | 2 | 1923-11-08 | O |
85CW0039 | 2 | 1923-11-08 | O |
14CW3013 | 2 | 1923-11-08 | O |
08CW0049 | 2 | 1923-11-08 | O |
04CW0070 | 1 | 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 49 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 36 AF — 74% of that, and 6th 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 | 72 | 13th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 131 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 42 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 106 | 0.2 |
| 2013 | 33 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 90 | 0.2 |
| 2014 | 57 | 11th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 133 | 0.2 |
| 2015 | 49 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 123 | 0.2 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 57 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 22 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 138 | 0.1 |
| 2018 | 31 | 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 97 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 81 | 15th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 137 | 0.4 |
| 2020 | 68 | 12th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 184 | 0.4 |
| 2021 | 25 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 365 | 0.2 |
| 2022 | 50 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 365 | 0.4 |
| 2023 | 72 | 13th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 365 | 0.3 |
| 2024 | 55 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 366 | 0.2 |
| 2025 | 36 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 304 | 0.2 |
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 B (8/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 11460 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 55% of the irrigation seasons in 1928-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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