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REES DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900658 · 1 · GOVERNMENT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 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 1914-05-01 — 339th 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: WOODTICK DITCH (1911-08-08). Immediately behind: W E DITCH (1917-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37503.23496 | 1914-05-01 | 1966-11-10 | 4.26 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 283 |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 146 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2005, came in at 243 AF — 166% of that, and 10th lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 416 | 13th lowest of 13 · 285% of median | 105 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 141 | 6th lowest of 13 · 97% of median | 85 | 1.9 |
| 1993 | 305 | 11th lowest of 13 · 209% of median | 88 | 3.0 |
| 1994 | 38 | 1st lowest of 13 · 26% of median | 21 | 1.1 |
| 1996 | 133 | 4th lowest of 13 · 91% of median | 74 | 1.2 |
| 1997 | 146 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 78 | 1.3 |
| 1998 | 134 | 5th lowest of 13 · 92% of median | 70 | 1.5 |
| 1999 | 372 | 12th lowest of 13 · 255% of median | 163 | 2.0 |
| 2000 | 74 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 51% of median | 85 | 0.5 |
| 2001 | 54 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 37% of median | 79 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 220 | 9th lowest of 13 · 151% of median | 65 | 3.6 |
| 2004 | 158 | 8th lowest of 13 · 108% of median | 71 | 2.3 |
| 2005 | 243 | 10th lowest of 13 · 166% of median | 67 | 2.6 |
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