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PIGGOTT DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 4301046 · 1 · MIDDLE STEWART CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:49 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 in line
Priority 1917-06-01 — 760th 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: PIGGOTT DITCH NO 1 (1914-05-01). Immediately behind: JOHN DELANEY DITCH (1892-10-15).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25796.24623 | 1917-06-01 | 1920-08-19 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 253 |
| 32172.24592 | 1917-05-01 | 1942-05-26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 467U |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 93 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 119 AF — 128% of that, and 11th 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 | 95 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 108 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 215 | 14th lowest of 15 · 231% of median | 84 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 307 | 15th lowest of 15 · 330% of median | 108 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 17 | 6th lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 17 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 141 | 12th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 62 | 1.3 |
| 2012 | 188 | 13th lowest of 15 · 202% of median | 75 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 93 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 38 | 1.3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 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 | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 71 | 7th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 36 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 107 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 22 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 119 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 16 | 5.0 |
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