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WEST HIGHLINE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3801088 · 1 · WEST COULTER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:22 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 1888-06-18 — 237th 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: PARADISE DITCH (1888-06-14). Immediately behind: DAVIGNON DITCH (1888-09-24).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14049.0 | 1888-06-18 | 1889-05-11 | 3.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 195 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 330 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 214 AF — 65% of that, and 5th 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 | 590 | 15th lowest of 15 · 179% of median | 68 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 522 | 13th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 104 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 289 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 87 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 183 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 39 | 2.7 |
| 2014 | 375 | 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 88 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 336 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 62 | 3.1 |
| 2016 | 524 | 14th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 91 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 330 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 60 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 164 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 37 | 2.5 |
| 2019 | 346 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 71 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 281 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 62 | 2.5 |
| 2021 | 139 | 1st lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 29 | 2.5 |
| 2022 | 169 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 35 | 2.5 |
| 2023 | 358 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 71 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 214 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 63 | 2.5 |
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