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DORAN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700593 · 1 · DORAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:19 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 1912-06-12 — 475th 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: SIX MILE DITCH (1911-11-30). Immediately behind: CLAYTON RICH DITCH (1912-08-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23016.22808 | 1912-06-12 | 1921-08-02 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 202 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 197 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 197 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 72 | 1.8 |
| 2002 | 11 | 4th lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 17 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 95 | 5th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 65 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 359 | 9th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 136 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 939 | 12th lowest of 15 · 477% of median | 134 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 1,365 | 15th lowest of 15 · 693% of median | 137 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 610 | 11th lowest of 15 · 310% of median | 62 | 8.0 |
| 2015 | 1,065 | 13th lowest of 15 · 541% of median | 160 | 12.0 |
| 2016 | 173 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 79 | 2.2 |
| 2017 | 1,171 | 14th lowest of 15 · 594% of median | 89 | 12.0 |
| 2018 | 176 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 63 | 2.5 |
| 2019 | 476 | 10th lowest of 15 · 242% of median | 117 | 6.5 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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