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BATES WASTE A SEEP DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000513 · 1 · ALUM GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:49 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.
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 1894-01-01 — 1904th most senior of the 4661 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: FARMER WELL NO 1 (1953-05-01). Immediately behind: CEDAR DITCH NO 1 (1894-01-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38064.16072 | 1894-01-01 | 1964-01-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | K5 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 97 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 99 AF — 102% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 12 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 17 | 4th lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 53 | 0.2 |
| 2009 | 106 | 11th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 198 | 0.5 |
| 2010 | 132 | 13th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 209 | 0.6 |
| 2011 | 143 | 14th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 202 | 0.8 |
| 2012 | 85 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 191 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 109 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 204 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 145 | 15th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 212 | 2.3 |
| 2015 | 97 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 214 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 97 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 202 | 0.3 |
| 2017 | 86 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 210 | 0.3 |
| 2018 | 67 | 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 212 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 99 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 212 | 0.3 |
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