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FRAZIER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5200549 · 1 · PINEY RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:03 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 1940-05-01 — 197th 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: SWITZER DITCH (HDG 2) (1938-10-16). Immediately behind: SPRING DITCH (1940-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32993.0 | 1940-05-01 | 1946-08-30 | 5.15 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 200 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 177 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 166 AF — 94% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 623 | 14th lowest of 15 · 352% of median | 92 | 5.0 |
| 1986 | 350 | 10th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 97 | 2.0 |
| 1987 | 402 | 11th lowest of 15 · 227% of median | 82 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 635 | 15th lowest of 15 · 359% of median | 71 | 5.2 |
| 1989 | 609 | 13th lowest of 15 · 344% of median | 71 | 5.1 |
| 1990 | 177 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 67 | 2.0 |
| 1991 | 435 | 12th lowest of 15 · 246% of median | 149 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 115 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 66 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 293 | 9th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 59 | 5.2 |
| 2017 | 128 | 6th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 71 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 122 | 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 43 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 30 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 20 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 166 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 52 | 1.7 |
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