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RAYNARD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900702 · 1 · RIFLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:08 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 1887-04-25 — 98th 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: WHITTINGHAM DITCH (1887-04-25). Immediately behind: WHITTINGHAM DITCH PL (1887-04-25).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13629.0 | 1887-04-25 | 1889-05-11 | 4.945 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOMAUG | 107 |
| 13713.0 | 1887-07-18 | 1889-05-11 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 119 |
Legal record & documents
10 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
W2829, W2317, CA0103, 83CW0110, 05CW0163, 01CW0213.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W2829 | 2 | 1889-05-11 | O |
W2317 | 2 | 1889-05-11 | O |
CA0103 | 2 | 1889-05-11 | O |
83CW0110 | 2 | 1889-05-11 | O |
05CW0163 | 1 | 1889-05-11 | O |
01CW0213 | 1 | 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 143 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1986, came in at 207 AF — 145% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 50 | 5th lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 10 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 1965 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1966 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 1967 | 341 | 13th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 105 | 2.0 |
| 1970 | 96 | 7th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 54 | 2.0 |
| 1971 | 91 | 6th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 1972 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 1974 | 143 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 52 | 1.6 |
| 1975 | 149 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 67 | 1.5 |
| 1976 | 160 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 72 | 1.2 |
| 1978 | 247 | 12th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 92 | 1.5 |
| 1979 | 423 | 15th lowest of 15 · 296% of median | 157 | 2.2 |
| 1980 | 390 | 14th lowest of 15 · 273% of median | 180 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 207 | 11th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 57 | 1.9 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+14 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.003).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2130 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 27% of the irrigation seasons in 1949-1986 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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