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EDWARDS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700588 · 1 · BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 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 1884-04-15 — 19th 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: F M S DITCH (1884-03-01). Immediately behind: NEILSON SOUTH DITCH (1884-04-29).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12524.0 | 1884-04-15 | 1889-12-17 | 2.2 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 17 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 438 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 438 AF — 100% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 865 | 11th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | — | 156 | 5.0 |
| 1995 | 582 | 10th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | — | 205 | 2.0 |
| 1996 | 4,177 | 15th lowest of 15 · 954% of median | — | 305 | 20.0 |
| 1997 | 3,310 | 14th lowest of 15 · 756% of median | — | 245 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 2,592 | 13th lowest of 15 · 592% of median | — | 365 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 2,071 | 12th lowest of 15 · 473% of median | — | 304 | 6.0 |
| 2016 | 507 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 507 | 214 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 436 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 436 | 245 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 436 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 436 | 304 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 438 | 4th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 438 | 240 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 431 | 1st lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 431 | 355 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 438 | 4th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 438 | 365 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 438 | 4th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 438 | 365 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 438 | 4th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 438 | 365 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 438 | 4th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 438 | 305 | 1.2 |
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.