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RUSSELL NO 3 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5200628 · 1 · PINEY RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:23 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 1919-04-10 — 156th 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: PEYTON DITCH (1917-09-01). Immediately behind: RUSSELL NO 4 DITCH (1919-04-11).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29437.25301 | 1919-04-10 | 1946-08-30 | 5.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 160 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 331 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 84 AF — 25% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 541 | 12th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 102 | 2.8 |
| 1985 | 331 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 92 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 247 | 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 97 | 1.8 |
| 1987 | 472 | 11th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 66 | 4.2 |
| 1988 | 678 | 14th lowest of 15 · 205% of median | 74 | 5.0 |
| 1989 | 657 | 13th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 76 | 5.0 |
| 1990 | 413 | 9th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 79 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 251 | 6th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 150 | 3.0 |
| 1993 | 812 | 15th lowest of 15 · 245% of median | 101 | 5.0 |
| 1996 | 449 | 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 88 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 327 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 56 | 3.0 |
| 2010 | 81 | 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 25 | 1.7 |
| 2011 | 235 | 4th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 58 | 2.1 |
| 2021 | 184 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 63 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 84 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 82 | 0.6 |
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