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BADGER DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4400540 · 1 · BADGER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 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 1910-07-10 — 514th 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: A Q NO 1 DITCH SPPL HG NO 2 (1910-05-01). Immediately behind: HORSE DITCH (1910-07-10).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
36295.221051910-07-101960-09-01 3.00.0 CIRR 23A

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 39 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 23 AF — 59% of that, and 7th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2008 244 14th lowest of 15 · 626% of median 93 2.5
2009 194 11th lowest of 15 · 497% of median 56 2.0
2010 227 13th lowest of 15 · 582% of median 76 2.5
2011 801 15th lowest of 15 · 2054% of median 164 3.0
2012 220 12th lowest of 15 · 564% of median 168 1.5
2014 40 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 22 1.0
2016 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2018 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2019 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2020 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2021 39 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 17 1.5
2022 10 5th lowest of 15 · 26% of median 24 0.2
2023 13 6th lowest of 15 · 33% of median 32 0.2
2024 50 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median 42 1.0
2025 23 7th lowest of 15 · 59% of median 33 0.5

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.