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DICK DUNSTAN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4400596 · 1 · SECOND CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:45 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 1893-06-01 — 420th 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: HUDACK WELL NO 1 (1919-06-20). Immediately behind: HALEY DITCH NO 1 (1904-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25375.15858 | 1893-06-01 | 1919-07-08 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 71AA |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
07/08/1919.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
07/08/1919 | 1 | 1919-07-08 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 302 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 325 | 7th lowest of 12 · 107% of median | 83 | 2.0 |
| 1933 | 353 | 9th lowest of 12 · 117% of median | 90 | 2.0 |
| 1971 | 280 | 6th lowest of 12 · 93% of median | 93 | 2.0 |
| 1975 | 575 | 12th lowest of 12 · 190% of median | 64 | 5.0 |
| 1976 | 504 | 11th lowest of 12 · 167% of median | 86 | 4.0 |
| 1977 | 33 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 11% of median | 36 | 0.5 |
| 1978 | 337 | 8th lowest of 12 · 111% of median | 87 | 2.0 |
| 1979 | 171 | 5th lowest of 12 · 56% of median | 46 | 2.0 |
| 1980 | 389 | 10th lowest of 12 · 129% of median | 73 | 4.0 |
| 1981 | 93 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 31% of median | 57 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 161 | 4th lowest of 12 · 53% of median | 55 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 12 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 772 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 4% of the irrigation seasons in 1932-2018 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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