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DORAN DITCH 3
Structure dossier · WDID 4701070 · 1 · DORAN CREEK · 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 1959-06-15 — 726th 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: WATTENBERG WELL (1957-11-02). Immediately behind: DORAN DITCH 4 (1959-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44559.39977 | 1959-06-15 | 1972-12-31 | 4.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 115 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 185 | 10th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 74 | 1.8 |
| 2002 | 11 | 4th lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 17 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 115 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 63 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 160 | 9th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 57 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 112 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 34 | 2.4 |
| 2010 | 289 | 13th lowest of 15 · 251% of median | 45 | 4.5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 52 | 5th lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 33 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 220 | 11th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 48 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 287 | 12th lowest of 15 · 250% of median | 83 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 322 | 14th lowest of 15 · 280% of median | 26 | 6.5 |
| 2018 | 113 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 41 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 520 | 15th lowest of 15 · 452% of median | 78 | 4.5 |
| 2020 | 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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