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ED CONNER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500585 · 1 · DRY HOLLOW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:11 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 1901-06-06 — 139th 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: RIVERBEND WELL NO 5 (1907-04-01). Immediately behind: JOHNSON DITCH E DIVIDE (1893-04-14).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21052.18784 | 1901-06-06 | 1907-11-11 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 122BB |
| 37681.28277 | 1927-06-03 | 1965-07-09 | 5.38 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 235 |
| 37755.0 | 1953-05-15 | 1965-07-09 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 247 |
| 40460.0 | 1960-10-10 | 1965-07-09 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 270 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA4954, 97CW0140, 11/11/1907.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4954 | 1 | 1965-07-09 | S |
97CW0140 | 2 | 1965-07-09 | S |
11/11/1907 | 1 | 1907-11-11 | 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 464 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 856 AF — 184% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 135 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 20 | 5.0 |
| 2005 | 766 | 12th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 78 | 8.0 |
| 2006 | 387 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 156 | 5.0 |
| 2007 | 329 | 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 60 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 464 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 68 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 842 | 14th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 127 | 6.0 |
| 2014 | 604 | 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 121 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 200 | 5th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 67 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 504 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 119 | 3.4 |
| 2017 | 78 | 1st lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 50 | 0.8 |
| 2018 | 192 | 4th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 125 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 116 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 123 | 0.8 |
| 2022 | 583 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 289 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 787 | 13th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 190 | 5.5 |
| 2024 | 856 | 15th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 214 | 3.2 |
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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3603 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 35% of the irrigation seasons in 1976-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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