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GILBERT DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3600637 · 1 · GILBERT CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:23 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.

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 1888-07-01 — 84th 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: DOMESTIC SUPPLY DITCH (1886-05-13). Immediately behind: HAMILTON DAVIDSON DITCH (1888-08-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
14062.01888-07-011910-03-02 1.50.0 CIRR 51

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 143 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 98 AF — 68% of that, and 5th 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)
2009 178 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median 92 1.9
2010 86 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median 54 1.0
2012 44 1st lowest of 15 · 31% of median 73 0.3
2013 153 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 156 1.5
2014 235 15th lowest of 15 · 164% of median 136 1.3
2015 201 13th lowest of 15 · 141% of median 138 1.9
2016 218 14th lowest of 15 · 152% of median 116 2.0
2017 143 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 106 0.9
2018 141 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median 91 2.2
2019 182 12th lowest of 15 · 127% of median 73 2.1
2020 63 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median 69 1.0
2021 55 2nd lowest of 15 · 38% of median 80 0.8
2022 131 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 102 1.0
2023 154 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 115 1.5
2024 98 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median 95 0.8

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.