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LYLE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3801761 · 1 · IVANHOE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:47 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 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 1924-09-28 — 455th 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: IVANHOE RESERVOIR TUNNEL (1921-06-27). Immediately behind: PAN DITCH (1924-10-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28394.27299 | 1924-09-28 | 1928-01-09 | 50.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 247 |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,511 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,577 AF — 104% of that, and 9th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 3,010 | 14th lowest of 14 · 199% of median | 79 | 63.8 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 1,067 | 4th lowest of 14 · 71% of median | 365 | 39.4 |
| 2014 | 1,525 | 8th lowest of 14 · 101% of median | 365 | 36.6 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 1,497 | 7th lowest of 14 · 99% of median | 365 | 66.6 |
| 2017 | 1,594 | 10th lowest of 14 · 106% of median | 365 | 41.5 |
| 2018 | 468 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 31% of median | 365 | 18.2 |
| 2019 | 1,166 | 5th lowest of 14 · 77% of median | 365 | 27.6 |
| 2020 | 1,387 | 6th lowest of 14 · 92% of median | 366 | 34.6 |
| 2021 | 2,089 | 11th lowest of 14 · 138% of median | 365 | 47.6 |
| 2022 | 2,655 | 12th lowest of 14 · 176% of median | 365 | 42.5 |
| 2023 | 2,823 | 13th lowest of 14 · 187% of median | 365 | 41.8 |
| 2024 | 1,577 | 9th lowest of 14 · 104% of median | 305 | 37.4 |
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