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FORBES CK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300638 · 1 · FORBES CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:27 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 1901-10-05 — 618th 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: MCWILLIAMS & GEORGE D (1900-10-15). Immediately behind: JOHNSON DITCH (1902-05-19).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19502.18905 | 1901-10-05 | 1903-10-06 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 135 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 95 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2008, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 95 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 100 | 0.5 |
| 1995 | 202 | 12th lowest of 15 · 213% of median | 56 | 2.0 |
| 1996 | 266 | 14th lowest of 15 · 280% of median | 82 | 2.0 |
| 1997 | 277 | 15th lowest of 15 · 292% of median | 105 | 2.0 |
| 1998 | 242 | 13th lowest of 15 · 255% of median | 110 | 1.5 |
| 1999 | 131 | 9th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 67 | 1.5 |
| 2000 | 173 | 10th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 93 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 179 | 11th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 94 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 11 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 11 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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