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LUSHER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3600718 · 1 · NORTH TENMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:56 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 1896-06-01 — 157th 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: MILLER DITCH (1895-06-30). Immediately behind: COPPER MTN STAFFORD LAKE WELL (1896-06-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16954.0 | 1896-06-01 | 1910-03-02 | 0.36 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 101 |
Legal record & documents
10 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
CA1966, W1673, W1672, CA1277, 92CW0293, 82CW0411.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1966 | 2 | 1952-03-10 | S |
W1673 | 2 | 1910-03-02 | O |
W1672 | 1 | 1910-03-02 | O |
CA1277 | 2 | 1910-03-02 | O |
92CW0293 | 2 | 1910-03-02 | O |
82CW0411 | 1 | 1910-03-02 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 9 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1981, came in at 193 AF — 2144% of that, and 6th lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 250 | 8th lowest of 8 · 2778% of median | 85 | 1.5 |
| 1966 | 18 | 5th lowest of 8 · 200% of median | 32 | 0.3 |
| 1969 | 234 | 7th lowest of 8 · 2600% of median | 78 | 1.5 |
| 1975 | 0 | 1st lowest of 8 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 0 | 1st lowest of 8 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 1st lowest of 8 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 1st lowest of 8 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 193 | 6th lowest of 8 · 2144% of median | 67 | 1.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 8 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 267 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 8% of the irrigation seasons in 1965-1981 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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