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LEWIS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300762 · 1 · NORTH FORK WHITE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:41 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1955-09-03 — 1177th 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: FORBES DITCH 2 (1955-06-11). Immediately behind: COUFOS WELL 1 (1955-10-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38596.0 | 1955-09-03 | 1958-11-26 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISDOM | 590 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 89 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,126 AF — 1265% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 71 | 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 26 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 345 | 11th lowest of 15 · 388% of median | 123 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 490 | 12th lowest of 15 · 551% of median | 87 | 6.0 |
| 2011 | 188 | 9th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 40 | 3.5 |
| 2012 | 611 | 13th lowest of 15 · 686% of median | 156 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 89 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 23 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 334 | 10th lowest of 15 · 375% of median | 47 | 4.9 |
| 2024 | 620 | 14th lowest of 15 · 697% of median | 92 | 5.2 |
| 2025 | 1,126 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1265% of median | 140 | 7.4 |
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