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GRANBY PICKUP DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4001236 · 1 · DIRTY GEORGE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:55 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 1893-09-01 — 1727th 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: HARTMAN MCINTYRE WASTE D (1892-07-15). Immediately behind: ALDRIDGE DITCH (1894-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31924.1595 | 1893-09-01 | 1954-03-20 | 11.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | J47 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA3503.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3503 | 2 | 1954-03-20 | 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 419 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,845 AF — 440% of that, and 13th lowest of the 13 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | — | no recorded volume | 4 | 0 | — |
| 2010 | — | no recorded volume | 184 | 0 | — |
| 2011 | 1,252 | 12th lowest of 13 · 299% of median | — | 178 | 8.9 |
| 2012 | 648 | 9th lowest of 13 · 155% of median | — | 205 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 156 | 4th lowest of 13 · 37% of median | — | 72 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 478 | 8th lowest of 13 · 114% of median | — | 79 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 419 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | — | 138 | 1.9 |
| 2016 | 884 | 11th lowest of 13 · 211% of median | — | 110 | 9.0 |
| 2017 | 704 | 10th lowest of 13 · 168% of median | — | 129 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 259 | 5th lowest of 13 · 62% of median | — | 131 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 56 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 13% of median | — | 57 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 30 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 7% of median | — | 9 | 3.8 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 278 | 6th lowest of 13 · 66% of median | — | 57 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 1,845 | 13th lowest of 13 · 440% of median | — | 149 | 8.6 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 13 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1315 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 12% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.