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TERRELL NO 1 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100929 · 1 · TRAIL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:47 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 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 1889-05-01 — 190th 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: JOHN SHORE DITCH (1888-10-01). Immediately behind: B W FIELDS MULE CREEK NO 1 DITCH (1889-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.14366 | 1889-05-01 | 1911-08-03 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 180 |
| 28191.23922 | 1915-07-01 | 1927-08-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 372 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 266 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 8 AF — 3% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 317 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 70 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 392 | 13th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 83 | 3.9 |
| 2010 | 121 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 100 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 466 | 15th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 50 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 52 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 60 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 377 | 12th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 62 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 402 | 14th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 139 | 4.5 |
| 2016 | 266 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 37 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 174 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 77 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 131 | 4th lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 32 | 2.5 |
| 2019 | 340 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 75 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 183 | 6th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 59 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 187 | 7th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 57 | 2.8 |
| 2022 | 293 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 65 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 8 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 11 | 0.8 |
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