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JENSEN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900594 · 1 · COTTONWOOD GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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 get called out?
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 1901-04-15 — 138th 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: BENSON AND BARNETT DITCH (1890-03-25). Immediately behind: BARRETT DITCH NO 1 (1890-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19047.18732 | 1901-04-15 | 1902-04-26 | 8.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 159 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 125 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 567 AF — 454% of that, and 14th 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 | 102 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 136 | 0.9 |
| 2011 | 479 | 13th lowest of 15 · 383% of median | 161 | 3.6 |
| 2012 | 44 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 70 | 0.4 |
| 2013 | 76 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 104 | 0.9 |
| 2014 | 331 | 11th lowest of 15 · 265% of median | 132 | 4.4 |
| 2015 | 114 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 173 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 109 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 152 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 117 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 132 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 338 | 12th lowest of 15 · 270% of median | 105 | 3.2 |
| 2019 | 244 | 10th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 138 | 1.9 |
| 2020 | 9 | 1st lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 125 | 0.1 |
| 2021 | 125 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 156 | 0.6 |
| 2022 | 233 | 9th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 136 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 1,033 | 15th lowest of 15 · 826% of median | 183 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 567 | 14th lowest of 15 · 454% of median | 213 | 2.6 |
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