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SHORE DITCH NO 3
Structure dossier · WDID 5100886 · 1 · BATTLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:17 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
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 1908-04-20 — 247th 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: SHORE DITCH NO 2 (1908-04-20). Immediately behind: MCKENZIE DITCH (1908-04-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21294.0 | 1908-04-20 | 1911-08-03 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDFIRDOMAUGTMX | 210 |
Legal record & documents
10 decreed actions on record across
7 court cases:
98CW0293, 98CW0292, 17CW3129, W2034, CA1071, CA0183, 96CW3681.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
98CW0293 | 1 | 1998-12-31 | S |
98CW0292 | 2 | 1998-12-31 | S |
17CW3129 | 2 | 1998-12-31 | O |
W2034 | 1 | 1911-08-03 | S |
CA1071 | 1 | 1911-08-03 | S |
CA0183 | 1 | 1911-08-03 | S |
96CW3681 | 2 | 1911-08-03 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 92 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 93 AF — 102% of that, and 6th lowest of the 10 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 | 229 | 10th lowest of 10 · 250% of median | 69 | 1.7 |
| 1992 | 86 | 4th lowest of 10 · 94% of median | 35 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 132 | 8th lowest of 10 · 144% of median | 46 | 2.1 |
| 1994 | 64 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 70% of median | 47 | 0.9 |
| 1995 | 217 | 9th lowest of 10 · 237% of median | 62 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 90 | 5th lowest of 10 · 98% of median | 56 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 38 | 1st lowest of 10 · 42% of median | 24 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 94 | 7th lowest of 10 · 103% of median | 65 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 40 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 44% of median | 36 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 93 | 6th lowest of 10 · 102% of median | 72 | 2.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 10 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 512 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 5% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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