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8 F DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 4400520 · 1 · EAST FORK WILLIAMS FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1889-04-30 — 67th 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: HIGHLAND D ALT PT NO 5 (1889-04-28). Immediately behind: DUNSTON DITCH (1889-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14365.0 | 1889-04-30 | 1894-09-22 | 0.67 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 48 |
| 40421.28624 | 1928-05-15 | 1972-05-30 | 1.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 10B |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 163 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 235 AF — 144% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 91 | 5th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 24 | 2.0 |
| 2005 | 111 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 29 | 2.0 |
| 2006 | 63 | 4th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 18 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 258 | 11th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 88 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 163 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 42 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 44 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 12 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 321 | 14th lowest of 15 · 197% of median | 128 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 238 | 10th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 68 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 288 | 13th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 81 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 984 | 15th lowest of 15 · 604% of median | 88 | 8.0 |
| 2015 | 111 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 31 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 282 | 12th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 72 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 30 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 14 | 1.2 |
| 2025 | 235 | 9th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 52 | 2.3 |
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