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CALLICOTTE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800571 · 1 · ROARING FORK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:50 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 in line
Priority 1890-09-04 — 511th most senior of the 4788 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: MIZER POINT NO 1 (1890-01-01). Immediately behind: LAST CHANCE DITCH (1893-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30941.14857 | 1890-09-04 | 1936-08-25 | 3.6 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISSTK | 312 |
| 47636.0 | 1980-06-03 | 1980-12-31 | 0.0 | 3.6 | C | MUNCOMIND |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,187 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1994, came in at 1,809 AF — 152% of that, and 8th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 599 | 1st lowest of 12 · 50% of median | 152 | 2.0 |
| 1976 | 603 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 51% of median | 153 | 2.0 |
| 1977 | 607 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 51% of median | 153 | 2.0 |
| 1978 | 607 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 51% of median | 153 | 2.0 |
| 1980 | 732 | 6th lowest of 12 · 62% of median | 123 | 3.0 |
| 1985 | 631 | 5th lowest of 12 · 53% of median | 107 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 1,642 | 7th lowest of 12 · 138% of median | 214 | 6.0 |
| 1990 | 2,166 | 9th lowest of 12 · 182% of median | 365 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 2,172 | 10th lowest of 12 · 183% of median | 365 | 3.0 |
| 1992 | 2,178 | 12th lowest of 12 · 184% of median | 366 | 3.0 |
| 1993 | 2,172 | 10th lowest of 12 · 183% of median | 365 | 3.0 |
| 1994 | 1,809 | 8th lowest of 12 · 152% of median | 304 | 3.0 |
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