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INDEPENDENT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700684 · 1 · NORTH FORK NORTH PLATTE · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:49 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 1888-09-01 — 180th 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: MUTUAL DITCH (1888-08-29). Immediately behind: MAMMOUTH DITCH (1888-09-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14124.0 | 1888-09-01 | 1902-04-23 | 33.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 78 |
| 30280.14138 | 1888-09-15 | 1939-06-20 | 36.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 654 |
| 33534.21335 | 1908-05-31 | 1958-01-10 | 43.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 747 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA0511, CA0286, CA1523.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA0511 | 1 | 1958-01-10 | S |
CA0286 | 1 | 1939-06-20 | S |
CA1523 | 1 | 1902-04-23 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 5,530 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 6,825 AF — 123% of that, and 14th 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 | 3,864 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 45 | 65.0 |
| 2012 | 3,830 | 1st lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 94 | 61.3 |
| 2013 | 4,168 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 63 | 42.2 |
| 2014 | 4,998 | 4th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 71 | 52.2 |
| 2015 | 5,959 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 61 | 56.3 |
| 2016 | 5,033 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 55 | 48.2 |
| 2017 | 5,614 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 66 | 51.3 |
| 2018 | 5,240 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 70 | 65.4 |
| 2019 | 8,686 | 15th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 68 | 108.4 |
| 2020 | 5,383 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 72 | 69.9 |
| 2021 | 6,194 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 123 | 50.8 |
| 2022 | 5,530 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 76 | 56.3 |
| 2023 | 6,197 | 13th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 69 | 49.9 |
| 2024 | 6,036 | 11th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 67 | 61.0 |
| 2025 | 6,825 | 14th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 98 | 54.9 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+171 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.001).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4676 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 31% of the irrigation seasons in 1954-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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