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WARD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300660 · 1 · SOUTH FORK WHITE RIVER · 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 1955-05-29 — 1158th 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: PELTIER NO. 2 DITCH (1955-05-29). Immediately behind: WHITE DITCH (1955-05-29).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38499.0 | 1955-05-29 | 1958-11-26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTKOTH | 574 |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 7 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 14 AF — 200% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2009 | 141 | 8th lowest of 10 · 2014% of median | 72 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 347 | 9th lowest of 10 · 4957% of median | 108 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 413 | 10th lowest of 10 · 5900% of median | 114 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 84 | 7th lowest of 10 · 1200% of median | 34 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 14 | 6th lowest of 10 · 200% of median | 33 | 0.2 |
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