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RUTH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3600794 · 1 · WILLOW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:44 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 1908-05-31 — 274th 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: COULTER NO 2 DITCH (1913-04-24). Immediately behind: MCNULTY INTERCEPTOR (1918-03-24).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25715.21335 | 1908-05-31 | 1920-12-23 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | 211 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 141 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 72 AF — 51% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 183 | 14th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 162 | 1.2 |
| 2010 | 152 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 127 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 7 | 1st lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 4 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 152 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 99 | 0.9 |
| 2014 | 141 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 102 | 1.1 |
| 2015 | 174 | 13th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 120 | 0.9 |
| 2016 | 88 | 5th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 63 | 0.9 |
| 2017 | 142 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 110 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 289 | 15th lowest of 15 · 205% of median | 127 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 13 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 73 | 0.1 |
| 2020 | 62 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 82 | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 169 | 12th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 154 | 0.9 |
| 2022 | 101 | 6th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 113 | 0.6 |
| 2023 | 122 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 117 | 0.7 |
| 2024 | 72 | 4th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 103 | 0.6 |
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