Hydrohistorian

← My Water  ·  Print / save as PDF

HUGHES GARDEN DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3800770 · 1 · THREEMILE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:27 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 1885-05-01 — 169th 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: FORKER AND GIBSON DITCH (1885-04-30). Immediately behind: SOUTH GLENWOOD IRR DIV (1885-05-01).

Decreed rights (6)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
12905.01885-05-011889-05-11 0.460.0 CIRR 118
22034.118031882-04-251910-07-28 0.30.0 CIRROTH 24A
22034.129051885-05-011910-07-28 0.30.0 CIRR 118
30941.227721912-05-071936-08-25 2.240.0 CIRR 390C
54056.315631936-06-011998-12-31 0.30.0 CIRRDOM
54419.01998-12-291998-12-31 0.00.18 CIRRDOM

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 15 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 11 AF — 73% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1998 78 15th lowest of 15 · 520% of median 108 0.5
1999 23 9th lowest of 15 · 153% of median 114 0.2
2000 28 11th lowest of 15 · 187% of median 155 0.2
2003 1 2nd lowest of 15 · 7% of median 15 0.0
2004 3 3rd lowest of 15 · 20% of median 142 0.0
2005 29 12th lowest of 15 · 193% of median 119 0.2
2006 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2007 6 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median 100 0.1
2008 14 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 107 0.3
2009 9 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median 88 0.1
2010 27 10th lowest of 15 · 180% of median 92 0.3
2011 74 14th lowest of 15 · 493% of median 54 1.1
2013 15 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 75 0.1
2020 33 13th lowest of 15 · 220% of median 111 0.2
2024 11 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median 119 0.1

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.