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HUBBARD DITCH 1
Structure dossier · WDID 4700676 · 1 · ILLINOIS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:51 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 1887-06-21 — 130th 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: ELLEN DITCH (1887-06-15). Immediately behind: WALKER DITCH (1887-06-21).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13686.0 | 1887-06-21 | 1892-09-19 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 100(93) |
| 13849.0 | 1887-12-01 | 1892-09-19 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 110(101) |
| 14417.0 | 1889-06-21 | 1892-09-19 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 196(176) |
| 23016.1884 | 1901-08-01 | 1923-03-06 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 375 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 297 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 297 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 57 | 5.0 |
| 2009 | 519 | 10th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 71 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 1,611 | 15th lowest of 15 · 542% of median | 29 | 30.0 |
| 2011 | 1,137 | 14th lowest of 15 · 383% of median | 78 | 12.6 |
| 2014 | 20 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 5 | 2.5 |
| 2015 | 47 | 5th lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 12 | 2.4 |
| 2016 | 807 | 13th lowest of 15 · 272% of median | 86 | 5.6 |
| 2017 | 749 | 12th lowest of 15 · 252% of median | 45 | 16.1 |
| 2018 | 672 | 11th lowest of 15 · 226% of median | 60 | 5.7 |
| 2019 | 396 | 9th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 92 | 4.5 |
| 2020 | 34 | 4th lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 7 | 2.8 |
| 2021 | 5 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 19 | 0.2 |
| 2022 | 72 | 6th lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 49 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 161 | 7th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 21 | 4.3 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
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