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FRANK DITCH SUPPLEMENT
Structure dossier · WDID 3400528 · 1 · MANCOS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1909-12-31 — 360th most senior of the 495 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: WEAVER SEEPAGE DITCH (1908-12-31). Immediately behind: MICHAELS SEEPAGE DITCH (1910-05-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30667.21914 | 1909-12-31 | 1963-03-22 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 62-28 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 181 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2006, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 217 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 91 | 1.5 |
| 1992 | 251 | 14th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 99 | 1.5 |
| 1993 | 233 | 12th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 106 | 1.5 |
| 1994 | 254 | 15th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 119 | 1.5 |
| 1995 | 244 | 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 142 | 1.2 |
| 1996 | 216 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 121 | 1.0 |
| 1997 | 193 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 112 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 133 | 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 91 | 0.8 |
| 1999 | 177 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 119 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 146 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 95 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 181 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 109 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 179 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 133 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 132 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 96 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 111 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 75 | 2.0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 11 | 0.0 |
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