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BONA FIDE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000863 · 1 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:43 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 1881-11-30 — 604th 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: FRUIT GROWERS RESERVOIR (1898-10-15). Immediately behind: HARTLAND DITCH (1881-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18729.11657 | 1881-11-30 | 1903-02-25 | 65.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRCOMINDAUGRCH | 1 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 20,410 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 19,226 AF — 94% of that, and 1st 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 | 25,984 | 14th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 209 | 65.0 |
| 2011 | 27,462 | 15th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 213 | 65.0 |
| 2012 | 24,274 | 12th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 211 | 73.6 |
| 2013 | 19,597 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 206 | 50.0 |
| 2014 | 20,410 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 209 | 50.0 |
| 2015 | 20,797 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 209 | 65.0 |
| 2016 | 19,758 | 5th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 210 | 63.0 |
| 2017 | 20,874 | 11th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 211 | 61.5 |
| 2018 | 25,256 | 13th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 223 | 75.0 |
| 2019 | 20,078 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 207 | 61.5 |
| 2020 | 20,328 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 202 | 59.6 |
| 2021 | 19,683 | 4th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 187 | 67.1 |
| 2022 | 20,648 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 208 | 67.1 |
| 2023 | 19,551 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 182 | 57.6 |
| 2024 | 19,226 | 1st lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 178 | 61.5 |
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