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COMET DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4800539 · 1 · MCINTYRE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1892-12-07 — 24th 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: LARAMIE RIVER DITCH (1891-08-07). Immediately behind: FORRESTER BROWN CREEK DITCH (1893-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15682.0 | 1892-12-07 | 1896-10-30 | 7.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 299 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 342 AF — 114% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 339 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 37 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 279 | 4th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 30 | 7.5 |
| 2012 | 63 | 1st lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 10 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 299 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 30 | 8.5 |
| 2014 | 299 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 30 | 8.5 |
| 2015 | 299 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 30 | 8.5 |
| 2016 | 298 | 5th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 30 | 8.5 |
| 2017 | 310 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 32 | 9.0 |
| 2018 | 241 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 28 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 222 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 26 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 366 | 12th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 78 | 8.8 |
| 2021 | 378 | 13th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 62 | 6.1 |
| 2022 | 469 | 14th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 82 | 4.2 |
| 2023 | 480 | 15th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 83 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 342 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 68 | 3.9 |
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