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LYNCH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3200612 · 1 · ALKALI CANYON · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:40 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 1904-04-11 — 143rd 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: CULLEN DITCH (1900-12-31). Immediately behind: POWELL AND CODY DITCH (1907-02-14).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19824.0 | 1904-04-11 | 1962-08-14 | 3.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 62-24 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 612 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 691 AF — 113% of that, and 10th 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 | 583 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 133 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 784 | 13th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 194 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 339 | 1st lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 138 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 424 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 157 | 1.9 |
| 2015 | 501 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 162 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 429 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 135 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 621 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 170 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 551 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 139 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 694 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 187 | 2.6 |
| 2020 | 841 | 15th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 163 | 3.6 |
| 2021 | 567 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 126 | 3.6 |
| 2022 | 612 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 136 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 701 | 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 174 | 3.8 |
| 2024 | 798 | 14th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 163 | 3.5 |
| 2025 | 691 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 147 | 3.3 |
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