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WARD AND REYNOLDS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500810 · 1 · DIVIDE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:40 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 1885-05-17 — 31st 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: DOW PUMP PL & PL ALT 3 (1885-03-15). Immediately behind: TAUGHENBAUGH DITCH (1885-07-28).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12921.0 | 1885-05-17 | 1888-05-05 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 32 |
| 13923.0 | 1888-02-13 | 1888-05-05 | 2.92 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 104 |
| 30170.12512 | 1884-04-03 | 1939-06-22 | 0.83 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | |
| 30170.22738 | 1912-04-03 | 1939-06-22 | 4.17 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
13 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
CA3253, CA2850, CA0089, 06CW0041.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3253 | 2 | 1939-06-22 | S |
CA2850 | 2 | 1888-05-05 | O |
CA0089 | 8 | 1888-05-05 | O |
06CW0041 | 1 | 1888-05-05 | O |
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 832 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,114 AF — 134% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 807 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 81 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 829 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 83 | 7.3 |
| 2012 | 711 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 81 | 6.6 |
| 2013 | 725 | 4th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 91 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 1,434 | 15th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 154 | 6.5 |
| 2015 | 1,138 | 11th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 128 | 6.0 |
| 2016 | 1,317 | 14th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 156 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 932 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 114 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 646 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 90 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 1,204 | 12th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 145 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 772 | 5th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 91 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 591 | 1st lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 89 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 832 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 108 | 5.5 |
| 2023 | 1,205 | 13th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 141 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 1,114 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 122 | 6.0 |
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 (8/10 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 | 6044 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 57% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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