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VIRGINIA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000616 · 1 · VIRGINIA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:28 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.
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 1887-12-19 — 623rd 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: PARCEL TWO PUMP (1886-07-01). Immediately behind: FREEMAN DITCH NO 1 (1888-03-31).
Decreed rights (13)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19413.13867 | 1887-12-19 | 1903-02-27 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 12 |
| 19413.15066 | 1891-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 1.019 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 19 |
| 19413.15432 | 1892-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 0.582 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 20 |
| 19413.15797 | 1893-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 0.601 | 0.0 | C | IRR | R24 |
| 19413.16162 | 1894-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 0.356 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 27 |
| 19413.16527 | 1895-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 0.356 | 0.0 | C | IRR | R28 |
| 19413.16893 | 1896-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 0.15 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 32 |
| 19413.17258 | 1897-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 0.094 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 33 |
| 19413.17623 | 1898-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 0.094 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 35 |
| 19413.17988 | 1899-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 0.263 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 38 |
| 19413.18353 | 1900-04-01 | 1903-02-27 | 0.207 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 39 |
| 31924.13867 | 1887-12-19 | 1954-03-20 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | J31 |
| 41410.0 | 1963-05-18 | 2005-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 894 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 894 AF — 100% of that, and 8th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 824 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | — | 185 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 1,409 | 15th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | — | 179 | 10.5 |
| 2012 | 537 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | — | 185 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 660 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | — | 180 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 1,069 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | — | 172 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 1,167 | 13th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | — | 193 | 7.4 |
| 2016 | 1,112 | 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | — | 173 | 8.0 |
| 2017 | 1,036 | 10th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | — | 172 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 302 | 1st lowest of 15 · 34% of median | — | 146 | 2.1 |
| 2019 | 1,245 | 14th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | — | 145 | 9.0 |
| 2020 | 493 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | — | 167 | 2.7 |
| 2021 | 321 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | — | 181 | 2.4 |
| 2022 | 567 | 5th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | — | 180 | 3.3 |
| 2023 | 953 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | — | 155 | 7.8 |
| 2024 | 894 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 168 | 6.3 |
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