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WARE AND HINDS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900687 · 1 · ELK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:33 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 1883-10-01 — 46th 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: MITCHELL-COOPER D AP NO2 (1883-07-05). Immediately behind: RIPPY WELL NO 1 (1883-10-01).
Decreed rights (7)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12327.0 | 1883-10-01 | 1889-05-11 | 4.9975 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 15 |
| 13209.0 | 1886-03-01 | 1889-05-11 | 10.2485 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 57 |
| 14001.0 | 1888-05-01 | 1889-05-11 | 5.4725 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 136 |
| 17480.1691 | 1896-04-18 | 1897-11-15 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 155 |
| 17486.16864 | 1896-03-03 | 1898-06-15 | 0.199 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 154C |
| 18613.17813 | 1898-10-08 | 1900-12-18 | 3.582 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 157 |
| 32959.25995 | 1921-03-04 | 1943-01-11 | 21.1935 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 220U |
Legal record & documents
41 decreed actions on record across
8 court cases:
CA3431, 82CW0145, 02CW0199, CA0883, 80CW0282, CA0779, CA0767, CA0103.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3431 | 2 | 1943-01-11 | S |
82CW0145 | 14 | 1943-01-11 | O, S |
02CW0199 | 7 | 1943-01-11 | O, S |
CA0883 | 1 | 1900-12-18 | S |
80CW0282 | 12 | 1900-12-18 | O, S |
CA0779 | 1 | 1898-06-15 | S |
CA0767 | 1 | 1897-11-15 | S |
CA0103 | 3 | 1889-05-11 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 8,323 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 8,323 AF — 100% of that, and 8th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,616 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | — | 185 | 34.0 |
| 2011 | 9,878 | 13th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | — | 193 | 33.4 |
| 2012 | 9,961 | 15th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 45 | 266 | 39.7 |
| 2013 | 8,481 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 19 | 354 | 38.5 |
| 2014 | 9,361 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | — | 182 | 37.7 |
| 2015 | 8,652 | 11th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 113 | 200 | 36.4 |
| 2016 | 7,058 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 81 | 214 | 44.9 |
| 2017 | 7,410 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 121 | 214 | 24.7 |
| 2018 | 7,065 | 4th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 121 | 214 | 23.3 |
| 2019 | 7,293 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 121 | 214 | 26.9 |
| 2020 | 9,934 | 14th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 121 | 216 | 30.1 |
| 2021 | 7,394 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 121 | 214 | 21.3 |
| 2022 | 6,245 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 121 | 214 | 22.3 |
| 2023 | 3,076 | 1st lowest of 15 · 37% of median | — | 70 | 25.3 |
| 2024 | 8,323 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 121 | 214 | 24.3 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-248 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.029).
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 7 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 19847 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1949-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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