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F E W NO 4 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700599 · 1 · RUBE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1924-07-29 — 398th 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 E W NO 3 DITCH (1924-07-29). Immediately behind: MAHONEY DITCH (1927-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30894.27238 | 1924-07-29 | 1936-10-03 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 459 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 162 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 5 AF — 3% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 101 | 6th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 75 | 1.0 |
| 1992 | 84 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 59 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 773 | 14th lowest of 15 · 477% of median | 155 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 214 | 12th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 37 | 3.0 |
| 1995 | 584 | 13th lowest of 15 · 360% of median | 146 | 5.1 |
| 1996 | 67 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 57 | 0.6 |
| 1997 | 162 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 103 | 0.8 |
| 1998 | 162 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 103 | 0.8 |
| 1999 | 198 | 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 101 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 192 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 98 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 192 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 98 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 866 | 15th lowest of 15 · 535% of median | 98 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 93 | 5th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 98 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 86 | 4th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 95 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 25 | 0.1 |
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