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CAN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4001092 · 1 · WILLIAMS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:24 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 1912-06-20 — 1361st 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: SHOEMAKER DITCH (1910-07-11). Immediately behind: CEDAR PARK EXT A ENL D (1912-09-25).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24894.22816 | 1912-06-20 | 1920-08-28 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | B39 |
| 29260.25808 | 1920-08-29 | 1937-05-28 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H118 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA2563, CA1424.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2563 | 1 | 1937-05-28 | S |
CA1424 | 1 | 1920-08-28 | 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 140 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 29 AF — 21% of that, and 3rd 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 | 249 | 11th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 132 | 1.6 |
| 2011 | 335 | 15th lowest of 15 · 239% of median | 139 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 127 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 111 | 0.9 |
| 2013 | 243 | 10th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 108 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 304 | 14th lowest of 15 · 217% of median | 94 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 105 | 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 59 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 203 | 9th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 117 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 289 | 13th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 88 | 4.7 |
| 2018 | 6 | 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 7 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 253 | 12th lowest of 15 · 181% of median | 87 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 140 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 74 | 1.9 |
| 2021 | 75 | 5th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 68 | 0.9 |
| 2022 | 64 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 36 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 12 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 24 | 0.9 |
| 2024 | 29 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 38 | 0.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-18 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.010).
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5140 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 44% 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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