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ZWAHLEN NO 1 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000667 · 1 · TROUBLESOME CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 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 in line
Priority 1902-07-06 — 87th 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: TROUBLESOME DITCH WASTE - SEEPAGE AND SP (1900-08-31). Immediately behind: ZWAHLEN NO 2 DITCH (1902-07-16).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.19179 | 1902-07-06 | 1911-08-03 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 93 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 653 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 561 AF — 86% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 653 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 72 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 611 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 56 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 827 | 13th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 69 | 7.2 |
| 2013 | 524 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 59 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 849 | 14th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 86 | 6.1 |
| 2015 | 507 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 55 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 424 | 1st lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 43 | 5.7 |
| 2017 | 515 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 54 | 5.7 |
| 2018 | 668 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 103 | 5.5 |
| 2019 | 603 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 63 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 654 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 81 | 7.0 |
| 2021 | 725 | 12th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 88 | 6.0 |
| 2022 | 676 | 11th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 80 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 1,092 | 15th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 79 | 12.0 |
| 2024 | 561 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 87 | 7.1 |
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