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POWELL AND CODY DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3200644 · 1 · CROW CANYON · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

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 1907-02-14 — 144th 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: LYNCH DITCH (1904-04-11). Immediately behind: TOTTEN RESERVOIR (1907-04-25).

Decreed rights (3)

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
20863.01907-02-141962-08-14 1.00.0 CIRR 62-26
26139.01921-07-261962-08-14 0.00.0 CIRR 62-50
44559.208631907-02-141972-12-31 3.00.0 CIRRSTK

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 215 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 118 AF — 55% of that, and 2nd 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 334 11th lowest of 15 · 155% of median 151 1.6
2012 419 13th lowest of 15 · 195% of median 194 1.8
2013 467 14th lowest of 15 · 217% of median 154 2.2
2014 473 15th lowest of 15 · 220% of median 157 1.7
2015 338 12th lowest of 15 · 157% of median 153 1.7
2016 278 9th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 176 1.1
2017 198 4th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 163 1.1
2018 188 3rd lowest of 15 · 87% of median 135 1.2
2019 114 1st lowest of 15 · 53% of median 155 1.0
2020 284 10th lowest of 15 · 132% of median 154 1.5
2021 201 5th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 111 1.6
2022 210 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 118 1.2
2023 213 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median 163 1.0
2024 215 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 161 1.0
2025 118 2nd lowest of 15 · 55% of median 125 1.0

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