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LONE CABIN DITCH EXT 2
Structure dossier · WDID 4002389 · 1 · LAKE FORK MINNESOTA CREE · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:14 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 1908-04-01 — 1589th 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: SHAFFER DITCH (1908-04-01). Immediately behind: WRAY DITCH (1908-05-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29260.21275 | 1908-04-01 | 1937-05-28 | 9.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | H68 |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA2563, 86CW0038.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2563 | 3 | 1937-05-28 | S |
86CW0038 | 2 | 1937-05-28 | 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 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 283 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 691 AF — 244% of that, and 10th lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 452 | 9th lowest of 10 · 160% of median | 125 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 205 | 4th lowest of 10 · 72% of median | 44 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 248 | 5th lowest of 10 · 88% of median | 48 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 41 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 14% of median | 14 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 318 | 6th lowest of 10 · 112% of median | 120 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 132 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 47% of median | 38 | 3.3 |
| 2021 | 34 | 1st lowest of 10 · 12% of median | 9 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 376 | 7th lowest of 10 · 133% of median | 93 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 420 | 8th lowest of 10 · 148% of median | 118 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 691 | 10th lowest of 10 · 244% of median | 99 | 6.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 10 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 | 708 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 36% of the irrigation seasons in 2015-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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