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FREEMAN DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 4000548 · 1 · SMITH FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 get called out?
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 1888-03-31 — 624th 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: VIRGINIA DITCH (1887-12-19). Immediately behind: HARTMAN - MCINTYRE ENLARGEMENT (1888-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19413.1397 | 1888-03-31 | 1903-02-27 | 0.094 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 13 |
| 44925.37985 | 1953-12-31 | 1973-12-31 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 33 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 113 AF — 342% of that, and 12th 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 | 119 | 13th lowest of 15 · 361% of median | 209 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 149 | 14th lowest of 15 · 452% of median | 146 | 1.6 |
| 2012 | 13 | 4th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 67 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 20 | 5th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 84 | 0.3 |
| 2014 | 33 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 152 | 0.3 |
| 2015 | 33 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 146 | 1.3 |
| 2016 | 22 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 177 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 60 | 11th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 211 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 9 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 90 | 0.1 |
| 2019 | 43 | 10th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 132 | 0.7 |
| 2020 | 24 | 7th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 26 | 0.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | 1st lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 31 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 28 | 0.2 |
| 2023 | 154 | 15th lowest of 15 · 467% of median | 73 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 113 | 12th lowest of 15 · 342% of median | 54 | 1.2 |
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