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LEONARD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700722 · 1 · ILLINOIS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 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 get called out?
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 1887-04-30 — 104th 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: COON CREEK DITCH (1887-04-30). Immediately behind: STELLA DITCH (1887-04-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13634.0 | 1887-04-30 | 1892-09-19 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 78(76) |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 484 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, 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 | 415 | 6th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 54 | 5.0 |
| 2007 | 888 | 14th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 66 | 10.0 |
| 2008 | 694 | 10th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 49 | 9.6 |
| 2009 | 484 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 53 | 7.0 |
| 2010 | 714 | 11th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 72 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 807 | 12th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 86 | 6.0 |
| 2013 | 813 | 13th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 56 | 9.6 |
| 2014 | 526 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 46 | 6.5 |
| 2015 | 145 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 74 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 280 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 35 | 6.5 |
| 2022 | 1,231 | 15th lowest of 15 · 254% of median | 54 | 12.0 |
| 2023 | 466 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 47 | 5.1 |
| 2024 | 405 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 41 | 5.1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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