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RUSSELL NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5200627 · 1 · PINEY RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:36 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 get called out?
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 1916-06-12 — 103rd 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: FORSTER RESERVOIR (1916-06-05). Immediately behind: ANGEHRN NO 2 DITCH (1914-07-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24269.0 | 1916-06-12 | 1916-07-17 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 109 |
| 29437.25301 | 1919-04-10 | 1946-08-30 | 2.08 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 159 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 189 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 233 AF — 123% of that, and 10th 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 | 301 | 11th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 115 | 2.1 |
| 1987 | 195 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 66 | 2.0 |
| 1988 | 580 | 15th lowest of 15 · 307% of median | 74 | 4.3 |
| 1989 | 560 | 14th lowest of 15 · 296% of median | 75 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 147 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 75 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 142 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 149 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 325 | 12th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 101 | 2.0 |
| 1996 | 179 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 88 | 1.0 |
| 1997 | 109 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 56 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 81 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 25 | 1.7 |
| 2011 | 482 | 13th lowest of 15 · 255% of median | 58 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 184 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 63 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 43 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 69 | 0.4 |
| 2023 | 189 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 87 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 233 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 99 | 1.2 |
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