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LOUIE PL & DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4400689 · 8 · FORTIFICATION CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:34 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1883-08-20 — 11th 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: DURHAM DITCH (1883-06-01). Immediately behind: ELMER BERTHA MACK PUMP (1883-08-20).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12285.0 | 1883-08-20 | 1892-09-22 | 0.0379 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
| 14700.0 | 1890-03-31 | 1892-09-22 | 0.039 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 49 |
| 38869.0 | 1956-06-02 | 1960-09-01 | 4.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 83 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 360 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 258 AF — 72% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 333 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 64 | 4.8 |
| 2011 | 251 | 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 36 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 430 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 77 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 341 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 47 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 383 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 56 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 424 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 58 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 147 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 32 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 791 | 15th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 103 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 360 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 62 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 574 | 13th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 76 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 618 | 14th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 87 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 566 | 12th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 89 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 258 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 38 | 3.5 |
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