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BAXTER NO 5 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900895 · 1 · CANYON 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 1903-05-01 — 170th 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: BAXTER NO 4 D (SP NO 2) (1903-03-01). Immediately behind: BAXTER SP BR & WASTE W D (1904-12-07).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20528.19478 | 1903-05-01 | 1906-06-07 | 2.0 | 1.8 | C | IRR | 167 |
| 37503.22066 | 1910-06-01 | 1966-11-10 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 279 |
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 520 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 299 AF — 57% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 762 | 8th lowest of 8 · 146% of median | 167 | 2.3 |
| 2004 | 497 | 4th lowest of 8 · 96% of median | 110 | 2.3 |
| 2005 | 589 | 6th lowest of 8 · 113% of median | 136 | 2.2 |
| 2006 | 720 | 7th lowest of 8 · 138% of median | 143 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | 1st lowest of 8 · 1% of median | 7 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 399 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 77% of median | 102 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 544 | 5th lowest of 8 · 104% of median | 96 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 299 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 57% of median | 91 | 2.0 |
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