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NORTH FORK ORCHARD COMPANY DITCH, HEADGA
Structure dossier · WDID 4002235 · 1 · BELL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:39 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 1981-06-12 — 2679th 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: ABRAMS PIPELINE (1981-06-08). Immediately behind: RUBLE WATER RIGHT (1981-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48010.0 | 1981-06-12 | 1981-12-31 | 1.25 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
87CW0123, 81CW0132, 81CW0131.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
87CW0123 | 1 | 1981-12-31 | S |
81CW0132 | 1 | 1981-12-31 | S |
81CW0131 | 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 7 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 7 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 224 AF — 3200% of that, and 6th lowest of the 7 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 7 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | 147 | 0.1 |
| 2019 | 29 | 5th lowest of 7 · 414% of median | 101 | 0.8 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 7 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 7 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 3rd lowest of 7 · 14% of median | 43 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 379 | 7th lowest of 7 · 5414% of median | 198 | 8.2 |
| 2024 | 224 | 6th lowest of 7 · 3200% of median | 207 | 0.9 |
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 703 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 50% of the irrigation seasons in 2018-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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