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CHILDS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000632 · 1 · YOUNGS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:02 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 1885-12-23 — 134th 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: ERIC JOHNSON DITCH (1885-12-02). Immediately behind: OAK VALLEY DITCH (1886-04-08).
Decreed rights (7)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13141.0 | 1885-12-23 | 1889-06-17 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 4 |
| 20501.14854 | 1890-09-01 | 1907-09-28 | 1.62 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 28 |
| 25807.14414 | 1889-06-18 | 1930-02-10 | 7.99 | 0.0 | C | IRR | G11 |
| 25807.14427 | 1889-07-01 | 1930-02-10 | 20.38 | 0.0 | C | IRR | G12 |
| 31924.12751 | 1884-11-28 | 1954-03-20 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | J18 |
| 55882.13398 | 1886-09-06 | 2003-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | STK | |
| 60019.0 | 2014-04-29 | 2014-12-31 | 0.57 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
12 decreed actions on record across
8 court cases:
14CW0023, 03CW0047, CA3503, CA2030, CA0457, CA0038, 75CW0085, 13CW3044.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
14CW0023 | 1 | 2014-12-31 | S |
03CW0047 | 2 | 2003-12-31 | S |
CA3503 | 1 | 1954-03-20 | S |
CA2030 | 2 | 1930-02-10 | S |
CA0457 | 1 | 1907-09-28 | S |
CA0038 | 2 | 1889-06-17 | O |
75CW0085 | 1 | 1889-06-17 | O |
13CW3044 | 2 | 1889-06-17 | O |
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 2,631 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,839 AF — 70% of that, and 3rd 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 | 3,239 | 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | — | 304 | 21.9 |
| 2011 | 4,149 | 14th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | — | 291 | 28.1 |
| 2012 | 2,431 | 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | — | 302 | 12.2 |
| 2013 | 2,626 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 353 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 3,428 | 12th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | — | 325 | 29.3 |
| 2015 | 3,134 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | — | 342 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 2,917 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | — | 363 | 15.0 |
| 2017 | 2,631 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 304 | 12.0 |
| 2018 | 749 | 1st lowest of 15 · 28% of median | — | 195 | 7.7 |
| 2019 | 4,656 | 15th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | — | 351 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 1,932 | 4th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | — | 366 | 9.6 |
| 2021 | 1,388 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | — | 365 | 5.2 |
| 2022 | 2,544 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | — | 362 | 18.1 |
| 2023 | 3,967 | 13th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | — | 354 | 23.8 |
| 2024 | 1,839 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | — | 291 | 12.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 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 | 7 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 18667 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1969-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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