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HARDSCRABBLE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5000574 · 1 · RED DIRT 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 1883-06-05 — 6th 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: BLICKLEY DITCH (1883-05-23). Immediately behind: HERDE DITCH (1883-06-05).

Decreed rights (6)

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
12209.01883-06-051906-08-11 6.2270.0 CIRR 11
12950.01885-06-151906-08-11 11.00.0 CIRR 19
19844.01904-05-011906-08-11 4.00.0 CIRR 74
21973.01910-02-281911-08-03 2.00.0 CIRRRECFISDOMSTK 113
31393.25081918-09-011938-07-13 8.80.0 CIRR 152
32733.01939-08-151941-07-17 611.140.0 AIRROTH 182

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,525 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 2,073 AF — 82% 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 2,993 12th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 63 26.3
2011 3,785 14th lowest of 15 · 150% of median 110 33.7
2012 2,802 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 94 26.3
2013 3,186 13th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 129 28.7
2014 2,787 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 70 27.3
2015 2,577 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 62 27.3
2016 2,317 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 103 25.0
2017 2,206 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 59 23.0
2018 2,525 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 60 30.0
2019 2,109 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 76 26.0
2020 1,970 2nd lowest of 15 · 78% of median 66 24.0
2021 1,903 1st lowest of 15 · 75% of median 56 25.0
2022 4,859 15th lowest of 15 · 192% of median 70 57.0
2023 2,504 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median 72 25.0
2024 2,073 3rd lowest of 15 · 82% of median 89 20.0

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