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DECKER IRRIGATION DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300601 · 1 · EAST DOUGLAS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:19 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1887-05-06 — 91st most senior of the 3293 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: YONCH DITCH (1887-05-05). Immediately behind: DECKER IRR DITCH ALT PT 1 (1887-05-06).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13640.0 | 1887-05-06 | 1890-10-22 | 2.8 | 0.0 | C | IRRIND | 72A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 4 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 60 | 10th lowest of 15 · 1500% of median | 62 | 0.5 |
| 2005 | 28 | 9th lowest of 15 · 700% of median | 58 | 0.2 |
| 2006 | 373 | 15th lowest of 15 · 9325% of median | 189 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 212 | 13th lowest of 15 · 5300% of median | 113 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 230 | 14th lowest of 15 · 5750% of median | 123 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 201 | 12th lowest of 15 · 5025% of median | 136 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 97 | 11th lowest of 15 · 2425% of median | 95 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 4 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 15 | 0.2 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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