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FREEMAN DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 4000547 · 1 · SMITH FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:17 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 1894-03-31 — 629th 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: GARDEN DITCH (1893-04-01). Immediately behind: SPRING BROOK DITCH (1895-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19413.16161 | 1894-03-31 | 1903-02-27 | 0.319 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 26 |
| 21263.20513 | 1906-03-01 | 1914-06-23 | 0.875 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A84 |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA0617, 03CW0286, CA0340.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA0617 | 1 | 1914-06-23 | S |
03CW0286 | 4 | 1914-06-23 | S |
CA0340 | 1 | 1903-02-27 | S |
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 337 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 337 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 742 | 15th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 182 | 3.5 |
| 2011 | 517 | 13th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 158 | 2.2 |
| 2012 | 144 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 92 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 383 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 185 | 2.2 |
| 2014 | 514 | 12th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 199 | 2.1 |
| 2015 | 558 | 14th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 214 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 399 | 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 203 | 2.2 |
| 2017 | 262 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 122 | 2.1 |
| 2018 | 65 | 1st lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 57 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 393 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 177 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 281 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 106 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 196 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 160 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 214 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 93 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 162 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 91 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 337 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 147 | 1.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-28 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.038).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 5845 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 55% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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