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H C AND L DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800725 · 1 · CATTLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 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 1884-05-01 — 117th 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: C AND L HIGHLINE DITCH (1884-05-01). Immediately behind: HAGMAN DITCH (1884-05-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12540.0 | 1884-05-01 | 1889-05-11 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 85 |
| 12985.0 | 1885-07-20 | 1889-05-11 | 0.1 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 131 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 271 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 201 AF — 74% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 307 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | — | 165 | 3.3 |
| 2011 | 173 | 1st lowest of 15 · 64% of median | — | 54 | 3.5 |
| 2012 | 339 | 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 13 | 170 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 271 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 119 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 186 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | — | 67 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 220 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 15 | 186 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 352 | 14th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 19 | 194 | 1.8 |
| 2017 | 225 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 21 | 214 | 1.4 |
| 2018 | 276 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 6 | 214 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 297 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 21 | 214 | 2.7 |
| 2020 | 193 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 21 | 214 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 224 | 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 21 | 214 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 356 | 15th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 9 | 171 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 342 | 13th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 4 | 163 | 1.8 |
| 2024 | 201 | 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 13 | 164 | 2.1 |
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