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CHRIS NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000535 · 1 · WASTE 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 1912-04-15 — 109th 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: CHRIS NO 1 DITCH (1912-04-15). Immediately behind: MCBRIDE DITCH (HILL CREEK) (1913-06-22).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22750.0 | 1912-04-15 | 1915-03-20 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 126 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 157 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 294 AF — 187% of that, and 12th 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 | 134 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 55 | 1.3 |
| 2011 | 157 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 55 | 1.8 |
| 2012 | 68 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 39 | 0.9 |
| 2013 | 87 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 45 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 186 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 73 | 1.3 |
| 2015 | 52 | 1st lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 49 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 130 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 57 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 103 | 4th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 56 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 228 | 10th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 136 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 136 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 86 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 374 | 14th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 188 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 412 | 15th lowest of 15 · 262% of median | 146 | 3.0 |
| 2022 | 338 | 13th lowest of 15 · 215% of median | 88 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 260 | 11th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 75 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 294 | 12th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 76 | 2.0 |
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