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TOM ENNIS DITCH HGT NO 3
Structure dossier · WDID 5000741 · 1 · LAWRENCE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1908-08-01 — 99th 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: LANDSLIDE DITCH (1908-06-23). Immediately behind: TOM ENNIS DITCH HGT NO 2 (1908-08-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21397.0 | 1908-08-01 | 1911-08-03 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 106 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 897 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,121 AF — 125% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 1,543 | 15th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 46 | 36.3 |
| 2009 | 897 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 77 | 11.3 |
| 2010 | 821 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 62 | 8.2 |
| 2011 | 966 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 70 | 10.2 |
| 2012 | 638 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 78 | 6.3 |
| 2013 | 770 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 94 | 8.2 |
| 2014 | 681 | 4th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 68 | 9.2 |
| 2015 | 1,016 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 85 | 12.3 |
| 2016 | 1,242 | 14th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 82 | 16.2 |
| 2017 | 1,193 | 13th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 47 | 14.7 |
| 2020 | 930 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 191 | 7.0 |
| 2021 | 534 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 158 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 379 | 1st lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 62 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 893 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 63 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 1,121 | 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 65 | 10.0 |
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