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LOST CABIN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4001172 · 1 · DRIFT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:47 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 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 1915-07-01 — 1365th 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: DUGOUT DITCH (1914-06-01). Immediately behind: FOSTER SEEP DITCH (1916-03-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24894.23922 | 1915-07-01 | 1920-08-28 | 2.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | B44 |
| 29260.23922 | 1915-07-01 | 1937-05-28 | 25.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H100 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 443 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 169 AF — 38% of that, and 4th 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 | 920 | 14th lowest of 15 · 208% of median | 63 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 1,300 | 15th lowest of 15 · 294% of median | 97 | 8.6 |
| 2012 | 676 | 11th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 65 | 6.5 |
| 2013 | 846 | 13th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 60 | 9.2 |
| 2014 | 742 | 12th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 97 | 7.5 |
| 2015 | 288 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 55 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 327 | 7th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 67 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 518 | 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 71 | 6.2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 443 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 73 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 132 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 31 | 2.2 |
| 2021 | 60 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 28 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 324 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 63 | 4.8 |
| 2023 | 640 | 10th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 114 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 169 | 4th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 71 | 2.8 |
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