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NILE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700795 · 1 · NORTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 1888-06-15 — 174th 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: MARTIN DITCH ALT PT (1888-06-14). Immediately behind: JAY DITCH (1888-06-20).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14046.0 | 1888-06-15 | 1892-09-19 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 74(70) |
| 30280.14046 | 1888-06-15 | 1939-06-20 | 9.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 651 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 587 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 383 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 53 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 587 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 60 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 534 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 61 | 6.0 |
| 2005 | 1,262 | 14th lowest of 15 · 215% of median | 71 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 561 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 59 | 6.0 |
| 2007 | 253 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 46 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 1,104 | 13th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 58 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 676 | 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 51 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 1,006 | 11th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 52 | 15.0 |
| 2014 | 1,097 | 12th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 55 | 10.6 |
| 2015 | 1,777 | 15th lowest of 15 · 303% of median | 57 | 16.0 |
| 2016 | 776 | 10th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 43 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 528 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 77 | 3.5 |
| 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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