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JOHNSON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700703 · 1 · NORTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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 in line
Priority 1900-05-01 — 535th 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: BUFFALO RES (1898-09-01). Immediately behind: ZIRKEL DITCH (1900-06-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30280.18383 | 1900-05-01 | 1939-06-20 | 5.98 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 692 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 352 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 504 | 11th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 68 | 5.0 |
| 2007 | 456 | 9th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 61 | 5.0 |
| 2008 | 496 | 10th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 62 | 6.0 |
| 2009 | 548 | 14th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 64 | 5.5 |
| 2010 | 301 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 46 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 352 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 39 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 506 | 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 52 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 621 | 15th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 83 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 539 | 13th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 45 | 6.5 |
| 2021 | 236 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 15 | 8.5 |
| 2023 | 52 | 5th lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 5 | 6.6 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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