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AQUEOUS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000855 · 1 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 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 1899-04-01 — 1529th 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: THOMAS THOMPSON DITCH (1899-03-23). Immediately behind: TUCKER DITCH & W WHEEL (1899-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29260.17988 | 1899-04-01 | 1937-05-28 | 1.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H30 |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 191 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1987, came in at 197 AF — 103% of that, and 8th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 417 | 14th lowest of 14 · 218% of median | 169 | 1.2 |
| 1975 | 409 | 12th lowest of 14 · 214% of median | 168 | 1.2 |
| 1976 | 409 | 12th lowest of 14 · 214% of median | 168 | 1.2 |
| 1977 | 359 | 10th lowest of 14 · 188% of median | 166 | 1.2 |
| 1978 | 404 | 11th lowest of 14 · 212% of median | 186 | 2.0 |
| 1979 | 17 | 1st lowest of 14 · 9% of median | 13 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 100 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 52% of median | 104 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 131 | 6th lowest of 14 · 69% of median | 115 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 95 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 50% of median | 99 | 1.5 |
| 1983 | 119 | 5th lowest of 14 · 62% of median | 100 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 110 | 4th lowest of 14 · 58% of median | 100 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 185 | 7th lowest of 14 · 97% of median | 132 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 210 | 9th lowest of 14 · 110% of median | 135 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 197 | 8th lowest of 14 · 103% of median | 121 | 1.0 |
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