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BASS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000857 · 1 · ESCALANTE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:19 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 1888-05-01 — 649th 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: MCCARTHY DITCH (1885-04-15). Immediately behind: JOHN W MUSSER DITCH (1888-12-20).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19773.14001 | 1888-05-01 | 1906-02-17 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
| 31924.28594 | 1928-04-15 | 1954-03-20 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | J187 |
| 38064.3735 | 1952-04-05 | 1964-01-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | K105 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA4808, 20CW3035.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4808 | 1 | 1964-01-31 | S |
20CW3035 | 2 | 1954-03-20 | S |
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 284 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 315 AF — 111% of that, and 9th 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 | 833 | 15th lowest of 15 · 293% of median | 179 | 5.0 |
| 2011 | 524 | 13th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 147 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 618 | 14th lowest of 15 · 218% of median | 174 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 492 | 11th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 124 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 284 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 123 | 1.8 |
| 2015 | 251 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 144 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 333 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 162 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 208 | 4th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 128 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 56 | 1st lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 70 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 242 | 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 134 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 134 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 161 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 170 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 95 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 281 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 142 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 523 | 12th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 143 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 315 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 127 | 2.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-25 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.048).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 6703 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 57% 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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