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OBERGFELL BALDWIN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000892 · 1 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:20 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 1888-04-01 — 1490th 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: KEHR DITCH (1886-08-01). Immediately behind: FNF DITCH (1888-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29260.13971 | 1888-04-01 | 1937-05-28 | 7.22 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H6 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,083 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 1,367 AF — 126% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 346 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 142 | 3.2 |
| 1997 | 310 | 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 153 | 2.2 |
| 1998 | 535 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 159 | 3.0 |
| 1999 | 565 | 4th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 133 | 3.0 |
| 2000 | 2,529 | 15th lowest of 15 · 234% of median | 291 | 7.5 |
| 2001 | 2,127 | 14th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 232 | 7.5 |
| 2002 | 2,027 | 13th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 200 | 7.5 |
| 2003 | 1,511 | 12th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 207 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 1,083 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 190 | 6.0 |
| 2005 | 688 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 194 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 1,510 | 11th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 182 | 7.5 |
| 2007 | 1,241 | 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 162 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 815 | 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 158 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 1,023 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 188 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 1,367 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 196 | 6.0 |
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