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HUNTER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800767 · 1 · HUNTER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:23 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
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
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 1897-08-01 — 357th 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: SMART AND GREEN DITCH (1909-04-24). Immediately behind: DAVISON DITCH (1887-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22481.1738 | 1897-08-01 | 1911-11-20 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 211E |
| 59900.4395 | 1970-05-01 | 2014-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 272 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 282 AF — 104% of that, and 7th lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 305 | 8th lowest of 11 · 112% of median | 78 | 2.0 |
| 1992 | 147 | 1st lowest of 11 · 54% of median | 45 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 413 | 11th lowest of 11 · 152% of median | 79 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 337 | 10th lowest of 11 · 124% of median | 86 | 2.0 |
| 1998 | 182 | 4th lowest of 11 · 67% of median | 52 | 2.2 |
| 1999 | 153 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 56% of median | 42 | 2.2 |
| 2020 | 150 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 55% of median | 43 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 202 | 5th lowest of 11 · 74% of median | 73 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 272 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 120 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 305 | 8th lowest of 11 · 112% of median | 118 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 282 | 7th lowest of 11 · 104% of median | 119 | 2.2 |
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