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JUST NO 4 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100756 · 1 · POLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:26 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 1904-06-10 — 158th 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 6 DITCH (1904-05-15). Immediately behind: JUST NO 5 DITCH (1904-06-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19884.0 | 1904-06-10 | 1906-08-11 | 0.625 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 140 |
| 50022.0 | 1986-12-15 | 1987-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | AUG |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 132 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1995, came in at 139 AF — 105% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 43 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 44 | 0.5 |
| 1978 | 123 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 74 | 0.9 |
| 1979 | 175 | 10th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 99 | 0.9 |
| 1980 | 122 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 89 | 0.7 |
| 1981 | 54 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 77 | 0.5 |
| 1982 | 104 | 4th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 76 | 0.7 |
| 1985 | 110 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 69 | 2.0 |
| 1986 | 195 | 13th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 81 | 2.0 |
| 1989 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 182 | 11th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 41 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 220 | 14th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 59 | 3.0 |
| 1992 | 232 | 15th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 94 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 190 | 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 35 | 3.0 |
| 1994 | 132 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 40 | 3.0 |
| 1995 | 139 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 36 | 2.0 |
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