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HOWARD AND WINSLOW DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700659 · 1 · BERRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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 1884-07-24 — 29th 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: HOWARD DITCH (1884-07-24). Immediately behind: JUNE CREEK DITCH (1884-07-24).
Decreed rights (8)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12624.0 | 1884-07-24 | 1889-12-17 | 3.2 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFISFIRDOMSTK | 26 |
| 16251.14645 | 1890-02-04 | 1901-03-05 | 3.6 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFISFIRDOMSTK | 157 |
| 17696.0 | 1898-06-13 | 1901-03-05 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFISFIRDOMSTK | 180 |
| 20427.20269 | 1905-06-30 | 1907-06-04 | 0.04 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFISFIRDOMSTK | 252 |
| 21756.14441 | 1889-07-15 | 1909-10-25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFISFIRDOMSTK | 282 |
| 30894.14776 | 1890-06-15 | 1936-10-03 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFISFIRDOMSTK | 379 |
| 30894.18061 | 1899-06-13 | 1936-10-03 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFISFIRDOMSTK | 385 |
| 30894.20634 | 1906-06-30 | 1936-10-03 | 4.39 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECFISFIRDOMSTK | 401 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 534 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 476 AF — 89% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 652 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 155 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 662 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 151 | 2.9 |
| 2011 | 248 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 137 | 1.6 |
| 2012 | 671 | 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 154 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 842 | 13th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 194 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 386 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 93 | 2.4 |
| 2017 | 1,492 | 15th lowest of 15 · 279% of median | 212 | 5.5 |
| 2018 | 534 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 200 | 1.6 |
| 2019 | 500 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 193 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 1,247 | 14th lowest of 15 · 234% of median | 202 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 418 | 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 215 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 563 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 215 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 423 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 214 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 476 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 214 | 1.2 |
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