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JUST NO 3 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100754 · 1 · POLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:18 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 1892-06-01 — 115th 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: JUST NO 2 DITCH (POLE CREEK) (1892-06-01). Immediately behind: WESTMAN NO 2 DITCH (1893-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15493.0 | 1892-06-01 | 1906-08-11 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 97 |
| 50022.0 | 1986-12-15 | 1987-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | AUG |
Recorded use (last 11 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 111 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1989, came in at 36 AF — 32% of that, and 1st lowest of the 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 123 | 8th lowest of 11 · 111% of median | 63 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 75 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 68% of median | 58 | 1.0 |
| 1978 | 236 | 10th lowest of 11 · 213% of median | 74 | 1.8 |
| 1979 | 292 | 11th lowest of 11 · 263% of median | 99 | 1.5 |
| 1980 | 227 | 9th lowest of 11 · 204% of median | 89 | 1.3 |
| 1981 | 111 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | 77 | 1.1 |
| 1982 | 119 | 7th lowest of 11 · 107% of median | 76 | 0.8 |
| 1984 | 87 | 4th lowest of 11 · 78% of median | 45 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 110 | 5th lowest of 11 · 99% of median | 81 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 65 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 59% of median | 23 | 1.5 |
| 1989 | 36 | 1st lowest of 11 · 32% of median | 24 | 1.0 |
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