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PETERSON NO 3 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700758 · 1 · WEST BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:31 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 1906-08-29 — 262nd 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: SKIFF NO 2 DITCH (1906-08-05). Immediately behind: PETERSON NO 4 DITCH (1906-08-29).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20694.0 | 1906-08-29 | 1907-06-04 | 0.1 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRCOMRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUGEVP | 265 |
| 30894.26906 | 1923-09-01 | 1936-10-03 | 0.71 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRCOMRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUGEVP | 455Q |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 146 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1999, came in at 318 AF — 218% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 321 | 12th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 113 | 1.6 |
| 1986 | 213 | 9th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 91 | 1.6 |
| 1987 | 146 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 62 | 1.5 |
| 1988 | 138 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 74 | 1.1 |
| 1989 | 134 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 67 | 1.6 |
| 1990 | 122 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 154 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 118 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 149 | 1.0 |
| 1992 | 405 | 15th lowest of 15 · 277% of median | 161 | 1.8 |
| 1993 | 258 | 10th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 133 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 44 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 32 | 0.8 |
| 1995 | 75 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 48 | 0.8 |
| 1996 | 23 | 1st lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 40 | 0.3 |
| 1997 | 392 | 14th lowest of 15 · 268% of median | 88 | 2.3 |
| 1998 | 350 | 13th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 133 | 2.0 |
| 1999 | 318 | 11th lowest of 15 · 218% of median | 135 | 2.0 |
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