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FRANK LARZALERE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700681 · 1 · MILL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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 1892-10-10 — 128th 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: LARZALERE DITCH (1892-10-06). Immediately behind: SCOVILLE DITCH (1892-10-20).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15624.0 | 1892-10-10 | 1894-06-29 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 122 |
| 34106.0 | 1943-05-19 | 1956-02-07 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 503 |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 236 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1980, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 204 | 5th lowest of 11 · 86% of median | 97 | 1.8 |
| 1952 | 243 | 7th lowest of 11 · 103% of median | 92 | 2.1 |
| 1953 | 203 | 4th lowest of 11 · 86% of median | 100 | 1.3 |
| 1954 | 236 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 83 | 1.8 |
| 1955 | 450 | 9th lowest of 11 · 191% of median | 125 | 2.7 |
| 1956 | 602 | 10th lowest of 11 · 255% of median | 142 | 2.6 |
| 1957 | 631 | 11th lowest of 11 · 267% of median | 132 | 3.0 |
| 1958 | 363 | 8th lowest of 11 · 154% of median | 128 | 1.8 |
| 1974 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 1st lowest of 11 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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