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WORTHINGTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4400515 · 1 · WILLIAMS FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 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 1887-04-10 — 165th most senior of the 3562 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: BUTLER DITCH (1886-07-01). Immediately behind: WORTHINGTON DITCH PUMP A (1887-04-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19250.13614 | 1887-04-10 | 1902-09-18 | 186.3 | 0.0 | A | IRRAUG | 23 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 171 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2020, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 516 | 14th lowest of 15 · 302% of median | 133 | 2.0 |
| 1992 | 440 | 13th lowest of 15 · 257% of median | 112 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 365 | 12th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 94 | 2.0 |
| 1994 | 536 | 15th lowest of 15 · 314% of median | 136 | 2.0 |
| 1997 | 209 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 79 | 2.0 |
| 1998 | 256 | 11th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 60 | 3.0 |
| 1999 | 175 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 40 | 3.0 |
| 2000 | 171 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 43 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 48 | 6th lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 9 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 71 | 7th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 19 | 3.0 |
| 2005 | 24 | 4th lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 7 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 36 | 5th lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 20 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
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