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SIX DIAMOND DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000645 · 1 · TROUBLESOME CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:03 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 1887-05-18 — 28th 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: BECKER NO 5 DITCH (1887-04-21). Immediately behind: ALBERT KEYES DITCH (1887-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13652.0 | 1887-05-18 | 1906-08-11 | 3.67 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 28 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 414 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 419 AF — 101% of that, and 9th 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 | 441 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 57 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 902 | 15th lowest of 15 · 218% of median | 63 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 322 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 67 | 3.5 |
| 2013 | 414 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 56 | 4.3 |
| 2014 | 725 | 13th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 56 | 15.2 |
| 2015 | 357 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 54 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 216 | 1st lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 33 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 295 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 46 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 411 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 66 | 6.0 |
| 2019 | 355 | 4th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 57 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 884 | 14th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 91 | 11.8 |
| 2021 | 518 | 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 85 | 5.5 |
| 2022 | 454 | 11th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 90 | 6.0 |
| 2023 | 372 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 80 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 419 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 79 | 3.5 |
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