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L E A DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100773 · 1 · BULL RUN · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1905-05-15 — 233rd 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: GUSTAFSON DITCH (1905-05-07). Immediately behind: BERG NO 2 DITCH (DOWNSTREAM) (1905-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.20223 | 1905-05-15 | 1911-08-03 | 0.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 242 |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 31 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 52 AF — 168% of that, and 14th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 21 | 6th lowest of 14 · 68% of median | 27 | 0.5 |
| 1996 | 18 | 5th lowest of 14 · 58% of median | 21 | 0.5 |
| 1997 | 46 | 13th lowest of 14 · 148% of median | 48 | 0.5 |
| 1998 | 36 | 10th lowest of 14 · 116% of median | 52 | 0.5 |
| 1999 | 32 | 8th lowest of 14 · 103% of median | 38 | 0.5 |
| 2000 | 33 | 9th lowest of 14 · 106% of median | 40 | 0.6 |
| 2001 | 30 | 7th lowest of 14 · 97% of median | 31 | 0.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | 1st lowest of 14 · 23% of median | 36 | 0.1 |
| 2004 | 14 | 4th lowest of 14 · 45% of median | 24 | 0.3 |
| 2005 | 43 | 12th lowest of 14 · 139% of median | 58 | 0.5 |
| 2006 | 13 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 42% of median | 13 | 0.6 |
| 2007 | 11 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 36% of median | 15 | 0.4 |
| 2023 | 36 | 10th lowest of 14 · 116% of median | 50 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 52 | 14th lowest of 14 · 168% of median | 49 | 1.0 |
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