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PIGGOTT DITCH AND RES
Structure dossier · WDID 3900639 · 1 · GOVERNMENT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1887-04-01 — 200th 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: GARDEN GULCH DITCH (1885-04-15). Immediately behind: C W D DITCH (1895-10-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23334.13605 | 1887-04-01 | 1913-12-08 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 101A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 54 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1999, came in at 51 AF — 94% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 375 | 15th lowest of 15 · 694% of median | 88 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 179 | 14th lowest of 15 · 332% of median | 91 | 1.0 |
| 1964 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1965 | 15 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 31 | 0.2 |
| 1967 | 29 | 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 38 | 0.4 |
| 1968 | 67 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 56 | 1.0 |
| 1969 | 54 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 1970 | 91 | 12th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 78 | 1.0 |
| 1971 | 61 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 81 | 0.7 |
| 1993 | 57 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 37 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 16 | 0.3 |
| 1996 | 128 | 13th lowest of 15 · 237% of median | 184 | 0.3 |
| 1997 | 34 | 5th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 52 | 0.4 |
| 1998 | 47 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 58 | 0.5 |
| 1999 | 51 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 46 | 0.6 |
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