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COTTONWOOD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000634 · 1 · KISER CREEK · 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 1902-05-01 — 1190th 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: RED ROCK DITCH (1901-08-25). Immediately behind: SCRUB OAK DITCH (1902-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20501.19113 | 1902-05-01 | 1907-09-28 | 0.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 48 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 12 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 301 AF — 2508% of that, and 15th 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 | 156 | 14th lowest of 15 · 1300% of median | 196 | 0.8 |
| 2006 | 27 | 9th lowest of 15 · 225% of median | 69 | 0.3 |
| 2007 | 8 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 40 | 0.2 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 4 | 0.5 |
| 2009 | 63 | 12th lowest of 15 · 525% of median | 85 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 4 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 13 | 0.2 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 3 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 9 | 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 88 | 0.1 |
| 2013 | 12 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 123 | 0.1 |
| 2014 | 100 | 13th lowest of 15 · 833% of median | 205 | 1.2 |
| 2015 | 50 | 11th lowest of 15 · 417% of median | 135 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 35 | 10th lowest of 15 · 292% of median | 152 | 0.4 |
| 2017 | 11 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 63 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 301 | 15th lowest of 15 · 2508% of median | 186 | 2.0 |
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