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ALBER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3600507 · 1 · SLATE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1885-06-15 — 72nd most senior of the 1247 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: HIGH MILLER DITCH (1885-06-01). Immediately behind: NORTH ACORN DITCH HDG 1 (1885-06-30).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12950.0 | 1885-06-15 | 1910-03-02 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 37 |
| 13301.0 | 1886-06-01 | 1910-03-02 | 1.37 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 45 |
| 17806.0 | 1898-10-01 | 1910-03-02 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 114 |
| 22964.21102 | 1907-10-11 | 1912-11-16 | 2.13 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 188 |
| 30184.23162 | 1913-06-01 | 1937-10-26 | 5.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 227, 83 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 843 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 843 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 597 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 84 | 4.1 |
| 2005 | 1,063 | 13th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 82 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 517 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 53 | 7.3 |
| 2007 | 850 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 71 | 7.8 |
| 2008 | 428 | 1st lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 39 | 6.0 |
| 2009 | 649 | 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 60 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 985 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 75 | 8.6 |
| 2017 | 673 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 59 | 7.9 |
| 2018 | 736 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 70 | 10.0 |
| 2019 | 1,035 | 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 77 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 1,090 | 14th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 75 | 10.0 |
| 2021 | 680 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 62 | 8.5 |
| 2022 | 852 | 10th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 82 | 8.4 |
| 2023 | 1,154 | 15th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 83 | 11.1 |
| 2024 | 843 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 72 | 8.0 |
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