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BLICKLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000526 · 1 · TROUBLESOME CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 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 in line
Priority 1883-05-23 — 5th most senior of the 360 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: TOM ENNIS DITCH (1883-05-01). Immediately behind: HARDSCRABBLE DITCH (1883-06-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12196.0 | 1883-05-23 | 1906-08-11 | 8.67 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 10 |
| 31393.25672 | 1920-04-15 | 1938-07-13 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 154 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,676 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,676 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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 | 1,396 | 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 51 | 22.5 |
| 2011 | 2,033 | 13th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 59 | 21.2 |
| 2012 | 967 | 1st lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 53 | 14.1 |
| 2013 | 1,711 | 11th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 59 | 31.0 |
| 2014 | 2,186 | 14th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 70 | 28.0 |
| 2015 | 1,458 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 64 | 21.7 |
| 2016 | 1,285 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 53 | 21.0 |
| 2017 | 1,144 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 49 | 20.2 |
| 2018 | 1,684 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 91 | 15.0 |
| 2019 | 1,705 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 78 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 1,620 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 84 | 23.0 |
| 2021 | 1,624 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 76 | 18.0 |
| 2022 | 1,798 | 12th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 72 | 22.0 |
| 2023 | 2,638 | 15th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 81 | 29.0 |
| 2024 | 1,676 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 68 | 29.6 |
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