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PINEY NO 2 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5200613 · 1 · PINEY RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 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 1908-04-03 — 135th 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: PINEY NO 1 DITCH HDG 2 (1908-03-15). Immediately behind: CONGER DITCH (1908-04-07).

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
29437.212771908-04-031946-08-30 2.60.0 CIRR 142

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 168 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 83 AF — 49% of that, and 2nd 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)
1993 299 15th lowest of 15 · 178% of median 101 2.4
1995 246 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median 72 2.0
1996 232 10th lowest of 15 · 138% of median 68 2.0
1997 262 13th lowest of 15 · 156% of median 56 2.4
1998 138 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 54 1.9
1999 57 1st lowest of 15 · 34% of median 36 0.9
2000 95 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median 52 1.0
2001 168 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 76 1.5
2002 180 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 48 1.9
2003 160 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 66 1.2
2004 89 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median 46 1.0
2005 235 11th lowest of 15 · 140% of median 80 1.5
2006 268 14th lowest of 15 · 160% of median 71 1.9
2008 130 5th lowest of 15 · 77% of median 54 1.2
2024 83 2nd lowest of 15 · 49% of median 49 1.2

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