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NIGHTCAP DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000620 · 1 · LINDSEY 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 1932-05-16 — 132nd 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: LINDSEY CREEK DITCH (1921-06-30). Immediately behind: DRY DITCH (1913-06-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30145.30086 | 1932-05-16 | 1933-07-10 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 147 |
| 31393.30071 | 1932-05-01 | 1938-07-13 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 160 |
| 45517.0 | 1974-08-15 | 1974-12-31 | 7.0 | 5.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 349 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 110 AF — 32% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 388 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 60 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 523 | 12th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 165 | 6.5 |
| 1997 | 570 | 14th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 138 | 4.8 |
| 1998 | 528 | 13th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 101 | 8.0 |
| 1999 | 476 | 11th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 101 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 783 | 15th lowest of 15 · 224% of median | 96 | 10.1 |
| 2001 | 244 | 7th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 93 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 144 | 6th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 63 | 2.0 |
| 2003 | 2 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 2 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 349 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 57 | 3.9 |
| 2021 | 349 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 63 | 3.9 |
| 2022 | 70 | 4th lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 50 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 45 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 43 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 110 | 5th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 54 | 2.0 |
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