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JONES DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5200583 · 1 · HENRY CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 1938-09-15 — 195th 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: CASTLE RESERVOIR (1938-07-25). Immediately behind: SWITZER DITCH (HDG 2) (1938-10-16).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
32399.01938-09-151946-08-30 5.870.0 CIRR 198

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 129 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2020, came in at 354 AF — 274% of that, and 15th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2003 309 12th lowest of 15 · 240% of median 40 4.0
2005 62 5th lowest of 15 · 48% of median 64 0.5
2006 104 7th lowest of 15 · 81% of median 69 1.0
2007 56 4th lowest of 15 · 43% of median 57 0.5
2008 72 6th lowest of 15 · 56% of median 27 1.5
2009 140 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 64 1.8
2010 26 1st lowest of 15 · 20% of median 60 0.3
2011 134 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 67 1.2
2012 43 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median 74 0.5
2013 325 13th lowest of 15 · 252% of median 78 2.3
2015 234 11th lowest of 15 · 181% of median 92 2.3
2016 129 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 65 1.2
2018 26 1st lowest of 15 · 20% of median 44 0.3
2019 349 14th lowest of 15 · 270% of median 80 4.6
2020 354 15th lowest of 15 · 274% of median 73 5.4

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