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RINEHART NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4501082 · 1 · PORCUPINE 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 1955-09-17 — 370th 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: RINEHART SPG NO 6 AND PL (1955-09-16). Immediately behind: EATON PIPELINE NO 2 (1956-12-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38610.0 | 1955-09-17 | 1965-07-09 | 0.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 253 |
Recorded use (last 9 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 0 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1998, came in at 6 AF — —% of that, and 6th lowest of the 9 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · —% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · —% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · —% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · —% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 9 · —% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 21 | 9th lowest of 9 · —% of median | 27 | 0.4 |
| 1996 | 11 | 8th lowest of 9 · —% of median | 12 | 0.5 |
| 1997 | 9 | 7th lowest of 9 · —% of median | 10 | 0.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | 6th lowest of 9 · —% of median | 7 | 0.5 |
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