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HILLS DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4800512 · 1 · LARAMIE RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1880-07-01 — 2nd most senior of the 143 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: MANSFIELD DITCH 2 (1880-06-01). Immediately behind: WARREN DITCH (1881-03-25).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
11140.01880-07-011896-10-30 11.00.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 451 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 429 AF — 95% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 498 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 49 9.5
2011 451 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 44 9.5
2012 360 2nd lowest of 15 · 80% of median 42 6.7
2013 439 4th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 41 9.5
2014 439 4th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 41 9.5
2015 439 4th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 41 9.5
2016 439 4th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 42 8.9
2017 529 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median 53 9.5
2018 48 1st lowest of 15 · 11% of median 21 4.4
2019 486 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 48 8.0
2020 2,883 15th lowest of 15 · 639% of median 70 31.8
2021 1,309 14th lowest of 15 · 290% of median 49 18.6
2022 792 13th lowest of 15 · 176% of median 52 23.0
2023 565 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median 35 13.8
2024 429 3rd lowest of 15 · 95% of median 75 8.5

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.