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GRIFFITH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100686 · 1 · FRASER RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:16 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 1883-08-31 — 169th 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: BUNTE HIGHLINE DITCH (1883-08-31). Immediately behind: ROHAN DITCH (1883-12-31).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.12296 | 1883-08-31 | 1911-08-03 | 9.75 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMRECFISDOMAUGWLD | 152 |
| 34241.12296 | 1883-08-31 | 1952-11-07 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 446 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 220 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 200 AF — 91% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 365 | 14th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 113 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 333 | 13th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 99 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 185 | 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 62 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 139 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 48 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 309 | 12th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 96 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 377 | 15th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 89 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 223 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 56 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 253 | 11th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 60 | 4.7 |
| 2018 | 87 | 1st lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 79 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 209 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 74 | 3.8 |
| 2020 | 245 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 89 | 2.5 |
| 2021 | 138 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 61 | 2.5 |
| 2022 | 220 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 83 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 207 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 106 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 200 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 70 | 3.0 |
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