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BARNES NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3001036 · 1 · DRY CREEK · 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 1955-12-13 — 572nd 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: PACIFIC NORTHWEST PL (1955-09-09). Immediately behind: MINERAL POINT DITCH (1956-09-27).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38697.0 | 1955-12-13 | 1966-03-21 | 1.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 65-71 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA1751-B, 84CW0108.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1751-B | 1 | 1966-03-21 | S |
84CW0108 | 1 | 1966-03-21 | S |
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 4 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 210 AF — 5250% of that, and 14th lowest of the 14 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 187 | 12th lowest of 14 · 4675% of median | — | 98 | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 66 | 11th lowest of 14 · 1650% of median | — | 75 | 0.8 |
| 1988 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | — | 14 | 0.0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | — | 13 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | — | 12 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | — | no recorded volume | 77 | 0 | — |
| 1992 | 8 | 8th lowest of 14 · 200% of median | — | 22 | 0.3 |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | — | 17 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | — | 16 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | — | 24 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 41 | 9th lowest of 14 · 1025% of median | — | 86 | 0.5 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | — | 18 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 62 | 10th lowest of 14 · 1550% of median | — | 73 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 191 | 13th lowest of 14 · 4775% of median | — | 94 | 1.2 |
| 2025 | 210 | 14th lowest of 14 · 5250% of median | — | 129 | 1.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 14 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2333 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 19% of the irrigation seasons in 1968-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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