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LIGHT AND LIGHT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800820 · 1 · EAST SOPRIS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:40 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 1881-05-15 — 12th 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: LIGHT DITCH (1881-05-15). Immediately behind: MCPHERSON DITCH (1881-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11458.0 | 1881-05-15 | 1890-05-24 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 10A |
| 36396.3561 | 1947-07-01 | 1952-10-24 | 7.41 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 575 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 421 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 532 AF — 126% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 1,081 | 15th lowest of 15 · 257% of median | 110 | 5.0 |
| 1985 | 873 | 14th lowest of 15 · 207% of median | 89 | 5.0 |
| 1986 | 459 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 74 | 3.2 |
| 1987 | 276 | 4th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 52 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 272 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 121 | 1.5 |
| 1989 | 361 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 93 | 2.0 |
| 1990 | 144 | 1st lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 38 | 2.4 |
| 1991 | 232 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 79 | 1.5 |
| 1992 | 365 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 93 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 421 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 107 | 2.0 |
| 1994 | 766 | 13th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 116 | 5.0 |
| 1995 | 734 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 75 | 5.0 |
| 1996 | 421 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 107 | 2.0 |
| 1997 | 500 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 127 | 2.0 |
| 2000 | 532 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 135 | 2.0 |
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