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GEORGIA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700631 · 1 · PETERSON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1913-05-10 — 480th 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: VALLEY DITCH (1912-12-31). Immediately behind: STAMBAUGH RES (1913-05-28).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23140.0 | 1913-05-10 | 1923-03-06 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 389.5 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 480 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 590 AF — 123% of that, and 11th 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 | 406 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 39 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 480 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 50 | 8.0 |
| 2013 | 500 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 42 | 7.7 |
| 2014 | 416 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 52 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 385 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 63 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 41 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 42 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 737 | 14th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 111 | 4.4 |
| 2019 | 86 | 4th lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 26 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 1,021 | 15th lowest of 15 · 213% of median | 74 | 10.2 |
| 2021 | 668 | 13th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 76 | 8.5 |
| 2022 | 648 | 12th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 80 | 6.7 |
| 2023 | 567 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 102 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 46 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 11 | 2.3 |
| 2025 | 590 | 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 31 | 10.8 |
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