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JESSMER NO 2 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5100738 · 1 · COPPER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 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 1904-07-15 — 227th 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: BERG NO 1 DITCH (UPSTREAM) (1904-06-30). Immediately behind: MOORE CATCH DITCH (1904-07-15).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
20676.199191904-07-151911-08-03 1.1250.0 CIRR 235

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 63 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 32 AF — 51% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1994 20 1st lowest of 15 · 32% of median 37 0.3
1995 103 12th lowest of 15 · 164% of median 68 2.0
1996 23 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median 25 0.5
1997 165 14th lowest of 15 · 262% of median 90 1.3
1998 68 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 34 1.5
1999 180 15th lowest of 15 · 286% of median 85 2.5
2000 73 10th lowest of 15 · 116% of median 45 1.2
2001 49 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 31 1.2
2002 21 2nd lowest of 15 · 33% of median 37 0.3
2005 90 11th lowest of 15 · 143% of median 72 0.8
2014 122 13th lowest of 15 · 194% of median 57 1.5
2015 61 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 50 0.8
2019 63 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 94 0.5
2021 35 5th lowest of 15 · 56% of median 58 0.5
2022 32 4th lowest of 15 · 51% of median 59 0.3

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