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DIXON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700570 · 1 · GROUSE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1889-06-20 — 187th most senior of the 2162 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: ARROWHEAD LTD WELL NO 4 (1889-06-10). Immediately behind: BEN NELSON DITCH (1889-06-20).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16251.14416 | 1889-06-20 | 1901-03-05 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | 153 |
| 16299.0 | 1894-08-16 | 1901-03-05 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 167 |
| 30894.23911 | 1915-06-20 | 1936-10-03 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | 426 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 180 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1995, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 268 | 13th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 136 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 180 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 92 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 387 | 14th lowest of 15 · 215% of median | 130 | 2.0 |
| 1982 | 233 | 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 94 | 1.5 |
| 1984 | 423 | 15th lowest of 15 · 235% of median | 123 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 192 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 76 | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 227 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 92 | 1.3 |
| 1988 | 236 | 12th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 107 | 1.6 |
| 1989 | 166 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 99 | 1.3 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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