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CENTER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100579 · 1 · EIGHTMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1889-06-01 — 81st most senior of the 2208 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: SIMCOX RESERVOIR INTAKE (1889-05-15). Immediately behind: BUTTON NO 5 DITCH (1889-06-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14397.0 | 1889-06-01 | 1906-08-11 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 71 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 274 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 229 AF — 84% of that, and 4th 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 | 200 | 1st lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 63 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 262 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 67 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 286 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 46 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 215 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 89 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 374 | 12th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 61 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 484 | 14th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 64 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 352 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 64 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 444 | 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 79 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 295 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 80 | 5.0 |
| 2019 | 531 | 15th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 104 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 259 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 84 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 224 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 42 | 4.0 |
| 2022 | 245 | 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 77 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 274 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 47 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 229 | 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 57 | 3.0 |
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