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SOUTH FORK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4400764 · 1 · SOUTH FORK WILLIAMS FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:09 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 1887-06-01 — 168th 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: WORTHINGTON DITCH PUMP P (1887-04-10). Immediately behind: CARD DITCH (1887-06-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19250.13666 | 1887-06-01 | 1902-09-18 | 0.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 26 |
| 36295.21549 | 1908-12-31 | 1960-09-01 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 19A |
| 51631.0 | 1991-05-12 | 1991-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | FIS |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
91CW0045, CA1278, 09/18/1902.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
91CW0045 | 1 | 1991-12-31 | S |
CA1278 | 1 | 1960-09-01 | S |
09/18/1902 | 1 | 1902-09-18 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 184 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,226 AF — 666% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 175 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 41 | 3.0 |
| 2010 | 197 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 38 | 3.6 |
| 2011 | 569 | 13th lowest of 15 · 309% of median | 57 | 6.0 |
| 2012 | 211 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 32 | 3.7 |
| 2013 | 184 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 59 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 374 | 11th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 51 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 162 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 88 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 763 | 14th lowest of 15 · 415% of median | 155 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 57 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 53 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 125 | 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 87 | 0.7 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 495 | 12th lowest of 15 · 269% of median | 82 | 4.2 |
| 2023 | 62 | 4th lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 64 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 1,226 | 15th lowest of 15 · 666% of median | 80 | 9.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5090 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 25% of the irrigation seasons in 1932-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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