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HILLSIDE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700665 · 1 · LONE PINE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:31 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 1888-05-01 — 145th 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: SQUIBOB DITCH (1888-04-30). Immediately behind: WOLFER DITCH (1888-05-08).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14001.0 | 1888-05-01 | 1902-04-23 | 15.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 63 |
| 15127.0 | 1891-06-01 | 1902-04-23 | 7.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 121 |
| 16571.0 | 1895-05-15 | 1902-04-23 | 15.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 143(128) |
| 33534.32414 | 1938-09-30 | 1958-01-10 | 37.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 762 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,308 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 4,025 AF — 122% 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 | 3,308 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 65 | 70.2 |
| 2012 | 1,259 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 131 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 2,882 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 123 | 20.6 |
| 2014 | 3,406 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 117 | 31.8 |
| 2015 | 4,688 | 12th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 98 | 38.5 |
| 2016 | 2,765 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 75 | 36.5 |
| 2017 | 5,055 | 14th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 136 | 36.1 |
| 2018 | 1,991 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 168 | 17.2 |
| 2019 | 3,806 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 49 | 61.5 |
| 2020 | 4,712 | 13th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 66 | 67.9 |
| 2021 | 2,737 | 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 42 | 43.8 |
| 2022 | 3,247 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 57 | 42.2 |
| 2023 | 5,683 | 15th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 63 | 51.7 |
| 2024 | 774 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 45 | 8.9 |
| 2025 | 4,025 | 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 147 | 17.6 |
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