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INDEPENDENT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100729 · 1 · POLE 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 1901-05-21 — 134th 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: BIG SIX DITCH (1900-10-01). Immediately behind: FISHER NO 1 DITCH (1901-06-17).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18768.0 | 1901-05-21 | 1906-08-11 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 118 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 310 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 310 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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 | 461 | 11th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 67 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 915 | 15th lowest of 15 · 295% of median | 92 | 7.1 |
| 2012 | 251 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 51 | 3.2 |
| 2013 | 293 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 50 | 5.1 |
| 2014 | 352 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 75 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 522 | 13th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 79 | 5.6 |
| 2016 | 408 | 10th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 55 | 6.8 |
| 2017 | 516 | 12th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 76 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 569 | 14th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 72 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 302 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 68 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 183 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 31 | 6.0 |
| 2021 | 118 | 1st lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 58 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 288 | 5th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 62 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 166 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 51 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 310 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 53 | 5.4 |
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