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COTTONWOOD FEEDER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500557 · 1 · COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:27 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1887-07-31 — 69th most senior of the 1378 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: MARTIN AND KENNEDY DITCH (1887-07-27). Immediately behind: OBRIEN AND BAUMGARTNER D (1887-07-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13726.0 | 1887-07-31 | 1888-05-05 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 88 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 52 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 52 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 136 | 14th lowest of 15 · 262% of median | 89 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 58 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 57 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 44 | 7th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 45 | 0.9 |
| 2011 | 107 | 13th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 38 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 21 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 22 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 13 | 1st lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 30 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 29 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 42 | 1.2 |
| 2015 | 34 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 50 | 1.3 |
| 2016 | 38 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 49 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 57 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 46 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 16 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 19 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 68 | 11th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 49 | 5.1 |
| 2022 | 71 | 12th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 65 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 283 | 15th lowest of 15 · 544% of median | 183 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 52 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 44 | 1.0 |
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