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INDEPENDENCE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700683 · 1 · SOUTH FORK BIG CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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 1895-11-10 — 279th 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: HANS CLAUSON D NO 2 (1895-06-01). Immediately behind: BIG CREEK RESERVOIR (1895-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16750.0 | 1895-11-10 | 1923-03-06 | 52.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A-5 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,154 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 8,341 AF — 264% of that, and 15th 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 | 478 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 77 | 5.0 |
| 2010 | 3,560 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 57 | 52.0 |
| 2012 | 6,033 | 13th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 124 | 28.9 |
| 2013 | 864 | 4th lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 62 | 15.8 |
| 2014 | 4,208 | 11th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 75 | 42.6 |
| 2015 | 7,136 | 14th lowest of 15 · 226% of median | 113 | 60.5 |
| 2016 | 1,976 | 6th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 85 | 12.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 2,640 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 75 | 26.5 |
| 2019 | 1,431 | 5th lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 38 | 22.4 |
| 2020 | 6,004 | 12th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 110 | 40.7 |
| 2021 | 3,154 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 51 | 42.3 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 4,092 | 10th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 72 | 48.8 |
| 2024 | 8,341 | 15th lowest of 15 · 264% of median | 93 | 60.0 |
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