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BALCH NO 1 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4001539 · 1 · NORTH FORK GUNNISON RIVE · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:13 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 1900-05-01 — 1738th 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: YOUNG DITCH ENLARGEMENT (1900-05-01). Immediately behind: BALCH NO 2 DITCH (1900-05-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
31924.183831900-05-011954-03-20 3.40.0 CIRRSTK J73, J74

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 53 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 53 AF — 100% of that, and 8th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2009 199 15th lowest of 15 · 376% of median 153 1.5
2010 137 12th lowest of 15 · 258% of median 132 1.5
2011 174 14th lowest of 15 · 328% of median 123 1.2
2012 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2014 24 5th lowest of 15 · 45% of median 121 0.1
2015 6 3rd lowest of 15 · 11% of median 61 0.1
2016 144 13th lowest of 15 · 272% of median 366 0.5
2017 25 6th lowest of 15 · 47% of median 167 0.1
2018 2 2nd lowest of 15 · 4% of median 123 0.0
2019 82 11th lowest of 15 · 155% of median 163 0.5
2020 56 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 114 0.2
2021 21 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median 142 0.1
2022 36 7th lowest of 15 · 68% of median 94 0.2
2023 55 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 154 0.2
2024 53 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 134 0.2

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.