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CARNEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700546 · 1 · LINE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1894-07-01 — 271st most senior of the 1262 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: SMEED DITCH (1894-06-30). Immediately behind: BOYCE BROS DITCH NO 1 (1894-10-16).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16253.0 | 1894-07-01 | 1923-03-06 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A-2 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 377 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,027 AF — 272% of that, and 12th 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 | 377 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 48 | 6.0 |
| 2012 | 43 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 47 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 243 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 36 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 932 | 11th lowest of 15 · 247% of median | 91 | 6.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 245 | 6th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 100 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 1,571 | 14th lowest of 15 · 417% of median | 69 | 12.0 |
| 2019 | 651 | 9th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 34 | 12.7 |
| 2020 | 210 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 41 | 10.0 |
| 2021 | 1,353 | 13th lowest of 15 · 359% of median | 90 | 9.0 |
| 2022 | 355 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 32 | 6.0 |
| 2023 | 758 | 10th lowest of 15 · 201% of median | 75 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 1,738 | 15th lowest of 15 · 461% of median | 93 | 14.5 |
| 2025 | 1,027 | 12th lowest of 15 · 272% of median | 108 | 7.3 |
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