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JOHN L CONGER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5200523 · 1 · PINEY RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:16 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 1892-07-01 — 92nd most senior of the 562 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: HIGH TRAIL DITCH (1890-07-01). Immediately behind: BOX CANYON NO 2 DITCH (1900-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22846.15523 | 1892-07-01 | 1913-01-13 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 96 |
| 32430.0 | 1938-10-16 | 1946-08-30 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 199C |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 589 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 256 AF — 44% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 1,636 | 15th lowest of 15 · 278% of median | 163 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 1,130 | 12th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 101 | 6.8 |
| 1988 | 1,201 | 13th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 71 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 1,235 | 14th lowest of 15 · 210% of median | 73 | 9.0 |
| 1990 | 553 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 156 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 589 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 153 | 4.0 |
| 1992 | 198 | 1st lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 41 | 2.5 |
| 1993 | 766 | 9th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 101 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 363 | 4th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 55 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 438 | 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 66 | 3.5 |
| 1996 | 902 | 10th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 100 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 940 | 11th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 97 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 515 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 54 | 6.0 |
| 1999 | 297 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 39 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 256 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 65 | 2.4 |
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