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RYDEN NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900655 · 1 · MAIN ELK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1912-04-06 — 267th 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: COZZA WELL NO 3 (1940-03-10). Immediately behind: RYDEN NO 1 DITCH (1915-04-07).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32959.22741 | 1912-04-06 | 1943-01-11 | 0.53 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 214 |
| 32959.25995 | 1921-03-04 | 1943-01-11 | 1.23 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 220G |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 122 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 141 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 76 | 1.5 |
| 1982 | 221 | 12th lowest of 15 · 181% of median | 63 | 1.8 |
| 1983 | 186 | 10th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 53 | 1.8 |
| 1984 | 215 | 11th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 58 | 2.0 |
| 1985 | 234 | 13th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 78 | 2.0 |
| 1986 | 324 | 15th lowest of 15 · 266% of median | 103 | 1.6 |
| 1987 | 253 | 14th lowest of 15 · 207% of median | 75 | 1.9 |
| 2010 | 81 | 7th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 25 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 122 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 75 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 34 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 39 | 6th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 61 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
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