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HAWKINS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4001437 · 1 · COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:51 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 1947-09-01 — 1858th 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: DELTA CITY RESERVOIR NO. 1 (ENLARGEMENT) (1947-07-25). Immediately behind: NEWMAN DITCH (1947-10-25).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35672.0 | 1947-09-01 | 1954-03-20 | 11.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | J288, J289 |
| 35885.0 | 1948-04-01 | 1954-03-20 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | STO | J300 |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA3503, 21CW3067.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3503 | 7 | 1954-03-20 | S |
21CW3067 | 1 | 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 228 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 806 AF — 354% of that, and 15th 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 | 400 | 11th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 71 | 5.0 |
| 2011 | 421 | 12th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 46 | 6.0 |
| 2012 | 141 | 6th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 33 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 308 | 9th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 111 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 92 | 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 49 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 542 | 14th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 102 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 132 | 5th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 64 | 2.6 |
| 2017 | 228 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 51 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 473 | 13th lowest of 15 · 208% of median | 61 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 199 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 50 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 83 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 24 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 380 | 10th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 92 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 77 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 33 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 806 | 15th lowest of 15 · 354% of median | 117 | 10.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3045 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 34% of the irrigation seasons in 1983-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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