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HOMESTEAD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700671 · 1 · GRIZZLY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:29 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 1891-04-24 — 238th 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: HANSON WELL NO 5 (1890-10-15). Immediately behind: LAST CHANCE DITCH (1891-05-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15089.0 | 1891-04-24 | 1902-04-23 | 11.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 119 |
| 50403.3564 | 1947-07-31 | 1988-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | STK | |
| 56613.56031 | 2003-05-29 | 2005-12-31 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,680 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 103 AF — 6% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 1,807 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 57 | 18.0 |
| 2010 | 1,382 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 44 | 18.0 |
| 2011 | 1,507 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 40 | 20.0 |
| 2012 | 643 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 79 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 1,617 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 67 | 20.0 |
| 2014 | 1,900 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 66 | 18.1 |
| 2015 | 2,698 | 13th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 82 | 17.0 |
| 2016 | 2,083 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 63 | 26.0 |
| 2017 | 3,255 | 15th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 84 | 27.6 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 2,424 | 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 57 | 26.0 |
| 2021 | 1,009 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 89 | 12.0 |
| 2022 | 3,094 | 14th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 61 | 26.0 |
| 2023 | 1,680 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 45 | 26.7 |
| 2024 | 103 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 48 | 1.1 |
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