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CERISE DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 3800581 · 1 · DRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:48 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 1947-07-17 — 757th 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: BEAVER LAKE DITCH (1947-07-07). Immediately behind: CERISE DITCH NO 2 (1947-07-25).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36396.35626 | 1947-07-17 | 1952-10-24 | 1.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 519 |
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 253 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1984, came in at 216 AF — 85% of that, and 4th lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 414 | 7th lowest of 8 · 164% of median | 120 | 1.8 |
| 1975 | 290 | 5th lowest of 8 · 115% of median | 74 | 2.0 |
| 1976 | 121 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 48% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 607 | 8th lowest of 8 · 240% of median | 153 | 2.0 |
| 1981 | 182 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 72% of median | 47 | 2.0 |
| 1982 | 89 | 1st lowest of 8 · 35% of median | 46 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 303 | 6th lowest of 8 · 120% of median | 153 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 216 | 4th lowest of 8 · 85% of median | 110 | 1.0 |
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