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DIETRICH DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 5000552 · 1 · PINTO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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 1898-09-21 — 82nd 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: HARRISON DITCH (1897-05-15). Immediately behind: ALBERT CREEK DITCH NO 2 (1899-08-03).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.17796 | 1898-09-21 | 1911-08-03 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 86 |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 22 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2004, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 88 | 10th lowest of 14 · 400% of median | 49 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 180 | 13th lowest of 14 · 818% of median | 92 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 104 | 11th lowest of 14 · 473% of median | 106 | 0.5 |
| 1977 | 121 | 12th lowest of 14 · 550% of median | 92 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 241 | 14th lowest of 14 · 1096% of median | 84 | 2.5 |
| 1981 | 15 | 6th lowest of 14 · 68% of median | 19 | 0.6 |
| 1982 | 24 | 8th lowest of 14 · 109% of median | 28 | 0.5 |
| 1983 | 10 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 46% of median | 20 | 0.4 |
| 1984 | 20 | 7th lowest of 14 · 91% of median | 38 | 0.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 36% of median | 26 | 0.2 |
| 1986 | 11 | 4th lowest of 14 · 50% of median | 19 | 0.3 |
| 2000 | 11 | 4th lowest of 14 · 50% of median | 16 | 0.4 |
| 2003 | 25 | 9th lowest of 14 · 114% of median | 33 | 0.5 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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