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HAMMOND NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100700 · 1 · SAINT LOUIS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:17 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
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 — 32nd 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: FVMRD CLUBHOUSE WELL (1883-07-18). Immediately behind: BYERS NO 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12296.0 | 1883-08-31 | 1906-08-11 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMWLD | 19 |
| 20676.12266 | 1883-08-01 | 1911-08-03 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 151 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA0183, W2264, CA0112.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA0183 | 1 | 1911-08-03 | S |
W2264 | 2 | 1906-08-11 | O |
CA0112 | 1 | 1906-08-11 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 210 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 214 AF — 102% of that, and 9th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 255 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | — | 173 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 187 | 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | — | 162 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 157 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 75% of median | — | 164 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 246 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 68 | 178 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 210 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 144 | 1.4 |
| 2015 | 160 | 4th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | — | 154 | 1.3 |
| 2016 | 319 | 13th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | — | 182 | 2.2 |
| 2017 | 319 | 13th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | — | 202 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 153 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | — | 167 | 2.1 |
| 2019 | 151 | 1st lowest of 15 · 72% of median | — | 146 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 196 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | — | 154 | 2.5 |
| 2021 | 279 | 12th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | — | 162 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 202 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | — | 163 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 341 | 15th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | — | 162 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 214 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | — | 174 | 1.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 7210 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 68% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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