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JAMES D DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700695 · 1 · NORTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:48 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 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 1893-05-31 — 466th 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: BERNARD DITCH (1889-06-15). Immediately behind: NELLIE E DITCH (1903-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23016.15857 | 1893-05-31 | 1921-08-02 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 195 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 301 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 379 | 9th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 65 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 434 | 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 110 | 4.0 |
| 2005 | 611 | 14th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 111 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 520 | 13th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 157 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 425 | 10th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 59 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 225 | 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 57 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 508 | 12th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | 74 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 300 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 41 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 301 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 39 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 301 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 39 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 667 | 15th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 87 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 170 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 66 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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