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HIGGINS DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3200581 · 1 · DAWSON DRAW · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:25 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — 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 1911-04-15 — 154th most senior of the 638 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: ALICE B MCNEILL DITCH (1910-04-25). Immediately behind: TOTMAN DITCH NO 2 (1911-04-15).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
22384.01911-04-151962-08-14 1.250.0 CIRRDOM 62-36, 62-

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 40 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 50 AF — 125% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 32 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 136 0.2
2012 54 12th lowest of 15 · 135% of median 142 0.3
2013 42 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 135 0.3
2014 35 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 161 0.3
2015 40 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 168 0.2
2016 33 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 148 0.2
2017 58 13th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 159 0.3
2018 16 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median 96 0.2
2019 30 3rd lowest of 15 · 75% of median 158 0.2
2020 9 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median 90 0.1
2021 34 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median 127 0.3
2022 40 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 155 0.2
2023 126 15th lowest of 15 · 315% of median 144 0.6
2024 117 14th lowest of 15 · 292% of median 162 1.0
2025 50 11th lowest of 15 · 125% of median 148 0.2

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.