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LILLIE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700725 · 1 · LONE PINE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:26 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 1891-06-01 — 241st 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: SUNDAY CREEK DITCH (1891-05-10). Immediately behind: GILLETTE DITCH 3 (1891-06-25).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15127.0 | 1891-06-01 | 1902-04-23 | 7.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 121 |
| 19661.0 | 1903-10-31 | 1908-07-01 | 3.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 170 |
| 24020.0 | 1915-10-07 | 1921-08-02 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 212 |
| 31166.0 | 1935-05-01 | 1939-06-20 | 7.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 735 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,263 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 722 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 58 | 11.0 |
| 2010 | 768 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 32 | 22.0 |
| 2012 | 1,438 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 62 | 18.6 |
| 2013 | 1,153 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 53 | 14.5 |
| 2014 | 1,006 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 46 | 16.2 |
| 2015 | 2,562 | 13th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 56 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 777 | 4th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 46 | 8.7 |
| 2017 | 1,287 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 65 | 11.5 |
| 2018 | 1,554 | 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 61 | 16.0 |
| 2019 | 2,218 | 12th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 63 | 18.3 |
| 2020 | 3,442 | 15th lowest of 15 · 272% of median | 65 | 30.3 |
| 2021 | 3,196 | 14th lowest of 15 · 253% of median | 56 | 30.3 |
| 2022 | 1,263 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 28 | 30.3 |
| 2023 | 853 | 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 87 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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