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LEROY'S DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3001575 · 1 · SALT CREEK · 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 1950-06-30 — 1549th 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: MALLARD POND (1945-12-31). Immediately behind: LEROY'S DITCH AP (1950-06-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54056.36705 | 1950-06-30 | 1998-12-31 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 243 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 358 AF — 147% of that, and 15th 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 | 292 | 13th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 148 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 240 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 162 | 0.8 |
| 2013 | 243 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 132 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 303 | 14th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 156 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 174 | 1st lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 132 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 181 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 142 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 272 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 143 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 194 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 107 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 256 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 134 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 260 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 138 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 174 | 1st lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 142 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 212 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 118 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 274 | 12th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 146 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 228 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 134 | 1.0 |
| 2025 | 358 | 15th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 140 | 1.5 |
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