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HODGSON NO 1 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500630 · 1 · GIBSON GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:28 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 in line
Priority 1892-05-01 — 151st 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: CABE AND SKIFF DITCH (1890-06-01). Immediately behind: HODGSON NO 2 DITCH (1892-05-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21504.15462 | 1892-05-01 | 1908-11-24 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 111B |
| 24925.2351 | 1914-05-15 | 1920-07-10 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 147BBA |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 9 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 31 AF — 344% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | 7th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 32 | 0.1 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 19 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.2 |
| 2005 | 18 | 11th lowest of 15 · 200% of median | 23 | 0.5 |
| 2006 | 167 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1856% of median | 57 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 12 | 9th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 10 | 0.8 |
| 2009 | 12 | 9th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 10 | 0.8 |
| 2014 | 134 | 14th lowest of 15 · 1489% of median | 59 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 19 | 12th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 16 | 0.8 |
| 2024 | 31 | 13th lowest of 15 · 344% of median | 46 | 0.4 |
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