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JAY BIRD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500645 · 1 · CACHE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 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 1886-08-02 — 57th 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: YOUNG MACKAY & OCONNOR D (1886-07-07). Immediately behind: HEWITT AND MILBURN DITCH (1886-08-09).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13363.0 | 1886-08-02 | 1888-05-05 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 59 |
| 13904.0 | 1888-01-25 | 1888-05-05 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 102 |
| 30170.22738 | 1912-04-03 | 1939-06-22 | 1.98 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 167 |
| 36068.0 | 1948-10-01 | 1953-03-02 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 202 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 288 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 178 AF — 62% of that, and 6th 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 | 162 | 5th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 57 | 4.3 |
| 1997 | 596 | 14th lowest of 15 · 207% of median | 113 | 10.4 |
| 1998 | 406 | 11th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 82 | 11.9 |
| 1999 | 228 | 7th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 78 | 7.1 |
| 2000 | 155 | 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 61 | 3.8 |
| 2001 | 132 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 51 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 18 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 32 | 0.9 |
| 2003 | 337 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 58 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 148 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 62 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 506 | 13th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 94 | 4.4 |
| 2006 | 470 | 12th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 77 | 8.2 |
| 2007 | 288 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 95 | 8.0 |
| 2008 | 744 | 15th lowest of 15 · 258% of median | 114 | 15.0 |
| 2009 | 313 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 77 | 6.0 |
| 2010 | 178 | 6th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 76 | 3.8 |
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