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HARRIS WASTE WATER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900580 · 1 · WEST RIFLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1887-06-01 — 147th 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: EAST FORK STORAGE SUMP (1888-03-03). Immediately behind: HARRIS RESERVOIR (1903-09-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19720.13666 | 1887-06-01 | 1904-03-18 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 115A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 118 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 73 AF — 62% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 324 | 13th lowest of 15 · 275% of median | 86 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 250 | 11th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | 150 | 2.5 |
| 2009 | 301 | 12th lowest of 15 · 255% of median | 81 | 2.5 |
| 2010 | 415 | 14th lowest of 15 · 352% of median | 53 | 6.0 |
| 2011 | 420 | 15th lowest of 15 · 356% of median | 87 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 205 | 10th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 85 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 118 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 115 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 38 | 5th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 50 | 0.5 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 22 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 33 | 4th lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 67 | 0.3 |
| 2020 | 21 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 30 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 74 | 7th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 65 | 0.7 |
| 2023 | 188 | 9th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 96 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 73 | 6th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 39 | 1.0 |
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