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Structure dossier · WDID 4700824 · 1 · ILLINOIS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:39 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 1888-05-15 — 152nd 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: LIZZIE DITCH (1888-05-15). Immediately behind: SCHOOL SECTION DITCH (1888-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14015.0 | 1888-05-15 | 1892-09-19 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 119(110) |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 339 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 402 AF — 119% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 280 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 45 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 306 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 42 | 5.5 |
| 2010 | 341 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 43 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 339 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 63 | 7.2 |
| 2015 | 329 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 84 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 362 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 56 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 19 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 15 | 0.7 |
| 2018 | 1,001 | 14th lowest of 15 · 295% of median | 76 | 7.2 |
| 2019 | 122 | 4th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 14 | 5.1 |
| 2021 | 118 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 42 | 3.3 |
| 2022 | 549 | 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 62 | 5.4 |
| 2023 | 1,027 | 15th lowest of 15 · 303% of median | 66 | 10.9 |
| 2024 | 495 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 53 | 7.2 |
| 2025 | 402 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 61 | 3.7 |
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