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BONITA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000753 · 1 · SURFACE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 04:34 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 1886-12-31 — 151st 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: FORKED TONGUE DITCH (1886-09-07). Immediately behind: OLD RELIABLE DITCH (1886-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13514.0 | 1886-12-31 | 1889-06-17 | 2.299 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 18, K45 |
| 20501.14413 | 1889-06-17 | 1907-09-28 | 0.834 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 27 |
| 25807.22095 | 1910-06-30 | 1930-02-10 | 1.72 | 0.0 | C | IRR | G68 |
| 38064.25719 | 1920-06-01 | 1964-01-31 | 5.34 | 0.0 | C | IRR | K45, K78 |
Legal record & documents
11 decreed actions on record across
6 court cases:
W0315, 93CW0019, 90CW0135, CA2030, W1421, 79CW0161.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0315 | 1 | 1964-01-31 | S |
93CW0019 | 3 | 1964-01-31 | O, S |
90CW0135 | 3 | 1964-01-31 | O, S |
CA2030 | 1 | 1930-02-10 | S |
W1421 | 2 | 1907-09-28 | O, S |
79CW0161 | 1 | 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 1,147 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,084 AF — 94% of that, and 7th 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 | 1,262 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 188 | 8.2 |
| 2011 | 1,518 | 13th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 187 | 8.2 |
| 2012 | 996 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 185 | 6.0 |
| 2013 | 608 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 143 | 6.5 |
| 2014 | 1,311 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 183 | 8.0 |
| 2015 | 1,062 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 181 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 1,147 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 181 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 1,393 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 181 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 260 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 79 | 3.3 |
| 2019 | 1,706 | 15th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 192 | 17.0 |
| 2020 | 795 | 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 189 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 354 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 187 | 3.3 |
| 2022 | 1,428 | 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 294 | 9.6 |
| 2023 | 1,632 | 14th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 326 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 1,084 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 268 | 6.1 |
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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 9095 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 78% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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