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POWELL DITCH NO. 1
Structure dossier · WDID 3100884 · 1 · IGNACIO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:37 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 get called out?
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 1950-05-31 — 763rd most senior of the 1037 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: POWELL DITCH NO. 2 (1950-05-31). Immediately behind: TOMLINSON DIVERSION (1988-08-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52960.36675 | 1950-05-31 | 1995-12-31 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRFISSTK |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 6 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2009, came in at 3 AF — 46% of that, and 7th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 122 | 14th lowest of 14 · 1877% of median | 122 | 0.8 |
| 1997 | 89 | 12th lowest of 14 · 1369% of median | 80 | 0.8 |
| 1998 | 73 | 11th lowest of 14 · 1123% of median | 78 | 0.8 |
| 1999 | 10 | 8th lowest of 14 · 154% of median | 25 | 0.8 |
| 2000 | 113 | 13th lowest of 14 · 1738% of median | 94 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 52 | 10th lowest of 14 · 800% of median | 58 | 0.8 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 1 | 6th lowest of 14 · 15% of median | 25 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 23 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 20 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 18 | 0.0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 17 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | 9th lowest of 14 · 185% of median | 66 | 0.2 |
| 2009 | 3 | 7th lowest of 14 · 46% of median | 17 | 0.2 |
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