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TOM ENNIS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000653 · 1 · TROUBLESOME CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 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 1883-05-01 — 4th 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: PLEASANT VIEW DITCH (1882-04-02). Immediately behind: BLICKLEY DITCH (1883-05-23).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12174.0 | 1883-05-01 | 1906-08-11 | 18.64 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 9 |
| 14771.0 | 1890-06-10 | 1906-08-11 | 2.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 21397.0 | 1908-08-01 | 1911-08-03 | 41.36 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 106 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,690 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 2,375 AF — 140% 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 | 1,798 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 129 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 1,665 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 91 | 16.2 |
| 2012 | 1,996 | 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 106 | 18.1 |
| 2013 | 2,390 | 13th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 112 | 18.7 |
| 2014 | 1,769 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 68 | 18.2 |
| 2015 | 1,690 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 100 | 17.2 |
| 2016 | 811 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 77 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 975 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 123 | 5.2 |
| 2018 | 874 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 104 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 521 | 1st lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 66 | 12.3 |
| 2020 | 1,385 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 122 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 1,546 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 128 | 11.0 |
| 2022 | 3,277 | 15th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 84 | 40.0 |
| 2023 | 2,723 | 14th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 73 | 42.2 |
| 2024 | 2,375 | 12th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 81 | 38.1 |
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