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OBERT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000731 · 1 · DIRTY GEORGE 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 1894-01-31 — 1246th 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: OVERLAND DITCH (HUBBARD CREEK) (1893-08-01). Immediately behind: JOHN DAVIS DITCH (1894-04-01).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21263.16102 | 1894-01-31 | 1914-06-23 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A28 |
| 21263.17258 | 1897-04-01 | 1914-06-23 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A46 |
| 21263.19311 | 1902-11-15 | 1914-06-23 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A71 |
| 31924.16102 | 1894-01-31 | 1954-03-20 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | J48, J49 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 336 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 336 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 | 720 | 11th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 190 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 804 | 12th lowest of 15 · 239% of median | 127 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 270 | 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 75 | 3.2 |
| 2013 | 209 | 6th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 122 | 2.1 |
| 2014 | 686 | 10th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 212 | 6.1 |
| 2015 | 1,723 | 15th lowest of 15 · 513% of median | 153 | 11.1 |
| 2016 | 444 | 9th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 84 | 8.1 |
| 2017 | 195 | 5th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 59 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 25 | 1st lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 15 | 1.8 |
| 2019 | 1,476 | 14th lowest of 15 · 439% of median | 151 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 119 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 86 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 30 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 14 | 1.4 |
| 2022 | 136 | 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 57 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 980 | 13th lowest of 15 · 292% of median | 212 | 6.9 |
| 2024 | 336 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 149 | 5.5 |
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