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FOGG DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000759 · 1 · SURFACE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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 get called out?
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 1885-04-02 — 131st 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: PAONIA PIPELINE (GELWICK) (1885-03-11). Immediately behind: CRAWFORD CLIPPER DITCH (1885-10-19).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12876.0 | 1885-04-02 | 1889-06-17 | 6.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 10 |
| 20501.1508 | 1891-04-15 | 1907-09-28 | 4.12 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 32 |
| 21263.1782 | 1898-10-15 | 1914-06-23 | 7.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A54 |
| 22138.0 | 1910-08-12 | 1914-06-23 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A120 |
| 29260.15797 | 1893-04-01 | 1937-05-28 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H14 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 897 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 897 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 | 1,051 | 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 121 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 1,516 | 13th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | 145 | 12.8 |
| 2012 | 863 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 118 | 7.9 |
| 2013 | 267 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 39 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 599 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 82 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 495 | 5th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 118 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 1,077 | 10th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 121 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 1,256 | 12th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 122 | 9.6 |
| 2018 | 122 | 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 21 | 6.1 |
| 2019 | 1,788 | 15th lowest of 15 · 199% of median | 147 | 13.9 |
| 2020 | 372 | 4th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 59 | 6.6 |
| 2021 | 345 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 41 | 6.6 |
| 2022 | 1,170 | 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 104 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 1,599 | 14th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 157 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 897 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 106 | 7.2 |
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