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LUND BLUE RIVER DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3600717 · 1 · BLUE RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:26 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 1886-05-01 — 81st 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: SAUMS DITCH (1886-04-20). Immediately behind: BROWN ACORN DITCH (1886-05-13).

Decreed rights (2)

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
13270.01886-05-011910-03-02 5.50.0 CIRRAUG 42
48364.01982-06-011982-12-31 0.00.98 CIND

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 476 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 289 AF — 61% 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)
2009 335 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median 108 2.7
2010 481 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 116 3.3
2012 458 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 108 2.7
2013 328 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median 70 2.6
2014 476 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 99 2.7
2015 239 1st lowest of 15 · 50% of median 65 2.7
2016 550 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median 132 2.7
2017 440 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 86 2.8
2018 529 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 155 3.4
2019 586 14th lowest of 15 · 123% of median 120 3.1
2020 586 14th lowest of 15 · 123% of median 134 2.8
2021 531 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 120 3.0
2022 566 13th lowest of 15 · 119% of median 165 2.8
2023 351 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 147 2.6
2024 289 2nd lowest of 15 · 61% of median 98 2.8

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.