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ELKHORN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000875 · 1 · NORTH FORK ESCALANTE CRE · 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 1884-03-01 — 647th 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: TATUM BURTON DITCH (1883-12-20). Immediately behind: MCCARTHY DITCH (1885-04-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19773.12479 | 1884-03-01 | 1906-02-17 | 0.45 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 4 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 98 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 205 AF — 209% of that, and 14th 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 | 29 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 32 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 38 | 4th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 61 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 64 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 73 | 0.8 |
| 2015 | 79 | 7th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 72 | 0.9 |
| 2016 | 170 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 162 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 177 | 13th lowest of 15 · 181% of median | 128 | 1.3 |
| 2018 | 106 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 100 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 111 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 112 | 0.6 |
| 2020 | 98 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 82 | 0.8 |
| 2021 | 320 | 15th lowest of 15 · 326% of median | 191 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 160 | 11th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 195 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 78 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 108 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 205 | 14th lowest of 15 · 209% of median | 167 | 0.8 |
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