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JAY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700699 · 1 · JACK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:19 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 1888-06-20 — 175th 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: NILE DITCH (1888-06-15). Immediately behind: CRYSTAL SPRING DITCH (1888-06-22).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14051.0 | 1888-06-20 | 1902-04-23 | 4.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 144 |
| 17790.0 | 1898-09-15 | 1902-04-23 | 7.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 293(279) |
| 30280.18414 | 1900-06-01 | 1939-06-20 | 6.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 694 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 603 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,066 AF — 177% of that, and 13th 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 | 741 | 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 61 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 603 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 44 | 18.6 |
| 2011 | 1,575 | 15th lowest of 15 · 261% of median | 79 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 1,131 | 14th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 51 | 15.0 |
| 2015 | 174 | 4th lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 41 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 248 | 5th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 42 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 723 | 10th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 53 | 7.2 |
| 2018 | 131 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 34 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 607 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 18 | 18.0 |
| 2021 | 300 | 6th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 37 | 5.9 |
| 2022 | 566 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 42 | 14.0 |
| 2023 | 834 | 12th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 45 | 16.0 |
| 2024 | 1,066 | 13th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 51 | 16.0 |
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