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ROCKFORD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800970 · 1 · CRYSTAL RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 1883-01-11 — 73rd 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: VAGNEUR WELL NO 1 (1882-10-20). Immediately behind: CARBONDALE WTR SYS & PL (1883-01-11).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12064.0 | 1883-01-11 | 1889-05-11 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | 51 |
| 30941.23895 | 1915-06-04 | 1936-08-25 | 25.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | 399 |
| 37096.0 | 1951-07-26 | 1952-10-24 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 627 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 5,249 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 7,174 AF — 137% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,302 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 153 | 25.9 |
| 2011 | 5,253 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 162 | 21.9 |
| 2012 | 5,943 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 193 | 21.6 |
| 2013 | 4,157 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 145 | 22.0 |
| 2014 | 5,396 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 179 | 21.6 |
| 2015 | 4,917 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 173 | 20.0 |
| 2016 | 5,249 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 184 | 20.0 |
| 2017 | 4,615 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 190 | 20.0 |
| 2018 | 4,111 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 172 | 21.3 |
| 2019 | 5,148 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 190 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 6,227 | 12th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 191 | 19.7 |
| 2021 | 3,857 | 1st lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 123 | 20.0 |
| 2022 | 7,142 | 13th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 181 | 27.8 |
| 2023 | 7,542 | 15th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 170 | 27.5 |
| 2024 | 7,174 | 14th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 167 | 29.6 |
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