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EAST FORK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900555 · 1 · PARACHUTE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:21 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 1888-03-03 — 145th most senior of the 1758 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: PIERSON AND HARRIS DITCH (1898-09-27). Immediately behind: EAST FORK STORAGE SUMP (1888-03-03).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19345.13942 | 1888-03-03 | 1903-12-29 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH | 126A |
| 19345.16546 | 1895-04-20 | 1903-12-29 | 1.85 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH | 154BB |
| 25648.22858 | 1912-08-01 | 1920-03-27 | 0.44 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH | 179BB |
| 31031.27818 | 1926-03-01 | 1937-01-04 | 3.47 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH | 207G |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 163 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1996, came in at 291 AF — 178% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 246 | 12th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 74 | 2.0 |
| 1957 | 349 | 15th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 150 | 2.0 |
| 1958 | 218 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 73 | 2.0 |
| 1960 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 1961 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1962 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1965 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1968 | 200 | 9th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 55 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 99 | 7th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 21 | 2.5 |
| 1970 | 219 | 11th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 76 | 2.0 |
| 1971 | 345 | 14th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | 58 | 6.0 |
| 1972 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 1974 | 163 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 105 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 291 | 13th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 89 | 2.3 |
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