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FREEMONT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800695 · 1 · FREEMAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:52 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 1925-01-01 — 611th 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: COOPER DITCH (1922-05-15). Immediately behind: SI JOHNSON DITCH (1926-01-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30941.27394 | 1925-01-01 | 1936-08-25 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 406AA |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 494 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 738 | 12th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 63 | 6.0 |
| 1978 | 190 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 33 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 190 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 33 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 2,083 | 15th lowest of 15 · 422% of median | 175 | 6.0 |
| 1981 | 244 | 5th lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 47 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 1,095 | 14th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 184 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 434 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 74 | 3.0 |
| 1984 | 494 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 84 | 3.0 |
| 1985 | 1,041 | 13th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 175 | 3.0 |
| 1986 | 605 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 62 | 5.0 |
| 1987 | 430 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 50 | 5.0 |
| 1996 | 532 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 184 | 5.0 |
| 1997 | 621 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 97 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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