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EDWARD B JORDAN DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3900556 · 1 · EAST ELK CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:09 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 1911-06-12 — 209th 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: GIACINTA DITCH (1906-07-12). Immediately behind: NOSR E PARACHUTE CR RES (1916-12-06).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
24224.224421911-06-121917-05-31 0.450.0 CIRR 179AAA-1

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 138 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 124 AF — 90% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 44 1st lowest of 15 · 32% of median 45 0.9
2011 122 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median 82 1.0
2012 111 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 122 0.8
2013 77 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median 66 0.9
2014 142 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 120 1.0
2015 181 11th lowest of 15 · 131% of median 121 1.6
2016 225 12th lowest of 15 · 163% of median 155 0.9
2017 276 13th lowest of 15 · 200% of median 132 1.5
2018 151 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median 99 1.4
2019 325 14th lowest of 15 · 236% of median 117 2.7
2020 138 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 78 1.1
2021 134 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 92 1.0
2022 62 2nd lowest of 15 · 45% of median 79 0.4
2023 374 15th lowest of 15 · 271% of median 193 1.4
2024 124 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 60 1.6

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.