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PINE RIDGE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3300533 · 1 · LA PLATA RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:09 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 1899-02-18 — 186th most senior of the 364 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: WILLOW SPRINGS DITCH (1898-10-01). Immediately behind: SOONER VALLEY DITCH (1899-05-07).

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
17946.01899-02-181915-06-23 14.00.0 CSTOIRRMUNCOMINDFISDOMOTHWLD #39
47116.469321978-06-301979-12-31 14.00.0 CSTOIRRMUNCOMINDFISOTH
54968.02000-06-302000-12-31 0.030.0 CSTO

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 484 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 140 AF — 29% of that, and 3rd 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 943 14th lowest of 15 · 195% of median 150 10.8
2012 261 6th lowest of 15 · 54% of median 145 8.4
2013 277 7th lowest of 15 · 57% of median 365 8.3
2014 484 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 10.2
2015 1,114 15th lowest of 15 · 230% of median 365 10.0
2016 727 11th lowest of 15 · 150% of median 305 10.5
2017 801 12th lowest of 15 · 166% of median 214 19.6
2018 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 304 0.0
2019 896 13th lowest of 15 · 185% of median 122 8.6
2020 244 5th lowest of 15 · 50% of median 122 9.3
2021 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 365 0.0
2022 177 4th lowest of 15 · 37% of median 365 7.6
2023 678 10th lowest of 15 · 140% of median 365 10.7
2024 526 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median 366 9.4
2025 140 3rd lowest of 15 · 29% of median 303 6.2

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.