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JOHN CERISE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800784 · 1 · ROARING FORK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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 1885-03-29 — 500th 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: CLAUDE CROWLEY DITCH 1 AP (1888-05-15). Immediately behind: NELLIE BIRD DITCH (1885-06-09).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30941.12872 | 1885-03-29 | 1936-08-25 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 280 |
| 30941.20336 | 1905-09-05 | 1936-08-25 | 2.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 364 |
| 53306.0 | 1995-12-12 | 1995-12-31 | 0.0 | 10.0 | C | IRRRECFIS |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,234 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,234 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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 | 830 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 67% of median | — | 206 | 4.4 |
| 2011 | 893 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | — | 129 | 11.8 |
| 2012 | 1,442 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | — | 85 | 10.2 |
| 2013 | 1,260 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | — | 78 | 16.8 |
| 2014 | 3,493 | 15th lowest of 15 · 283% of median | — | 177 | 12.8 |
| 2015 | 2,025 | 14th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | — | 127 | 8.5 |
| 2016 | 1,781 | 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 113 | 184 | 10.3 |
| 2017 | 1,728 | 11th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 113 | 199 | 9.8 |
| 2018 | 1,229 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 118 | 195 | 8.8 |
| 2019 | 1,069 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 93 | 154 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 1,144 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 131 | 214 | 7.2 |
| 2021 | 690 | 1st lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 131 | 214 | 5.7 |
| 2022 | 1,938 | 13th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 131 | 214 | 7.0 |
| 2023 | 876 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 131 | 214 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 1,234 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 131 | 214 | 5.4 |
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