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CASON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3001068 · 1 · ANIMAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:47 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.
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 1939-09-01 — 516th 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: FERDINANDO PIPELINE (1939-01-07). Immediately behind: A AND M ZELLITTI WELL (1939-10-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32750.0 | 1939-09-01 | 1966-03-21 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 65-41 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 260 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 196 AF — 75% 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 | 188 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 137 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 278 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 186 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 248 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 166 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 333 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 148 | 1.8 |
| 2015 | 193 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 149 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 327 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 145 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 285 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 113 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 30 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 220 | 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 104 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 260 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 116 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 379 | 13th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 155 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 538 | 15th lowest of 15 · 207% of median | 189 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 430 | 14th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 166 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 233 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 118 | 2.0 |
| 2025 | 196 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 86 | 2.0 |
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