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CUMMING DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000873 · 1 · CUMMINGS GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:37 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 1895-03-08 — 1333rd 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: GERHART D AND POND ALT P (1892-03-25). Immediately behind: BONNELL DITCH (1897-04-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24894.16503 | 1895-03-08 | 1920-08-28 | 2.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | B6 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,193 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2011, came in at 3,997 AF — 335% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 1,050 | 4th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 208 | 2.7 |
| 1998 | 1,097 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 213 | 2.7 |
| 1999 | 1,397 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 269 | 3.0 |
| 2000 | 1,523 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 305 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 953 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 180 | 2.8 |
| 2002 | 1,010 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 192 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 1,088 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 206 | 2.8 |
| 2004 | 1,321 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 212 | 6.0 |
| 2005 | 1,193 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 199 | 5.0 |
| 2006 | 1,194 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 190 | 5.0 |
| 2007 | 631 | 1st lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 185 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 1,184 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 165 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 1,849 | 13th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 200 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 3,050 | 14th lowest of 15 · 256% of median | 197 | 12.0 |
| 2011 | 3,997 | 15th lowest of 15 · 335% of median | 193 | 15.0 |
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