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JOSEPHENE NO 2 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5200666 · 1 · BIG ALKALI CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:37 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 1914-05-15 — 108th 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: SPRING CREEK DITCH (1919-05-01). Immediately behind: JOSEPHENE NO 1 DITCH (1915-05-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
27455.23511914-05-151927-06-24 2.00.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 88 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 143 AF — 162% of that, and 13th 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)
2009 99 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 51 1.0
2010 88 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 55 1.0
2011 205 14th lowest of 15 · 233% of median 85 1.5
2012 21 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median 26 0.5
2013 134 12th lowest of 15 · 152% of median 89 1.0
2014 215 15th lowest of 15 · 244% of median 98 2.1
2015 81 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 103 0.7
2016 112 10th lowest of 15 · 127% of median 67 1.1
2017 27 2nd lowest of 15 · 31% of median 42 0.3
2018 54 5th lowest of 15 · 61% of median 27 1.1
2019 64 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median 71 0.6
2020 32 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median 55 0.3
2022 36 4th lowest of 15 · 41% of median 26 0.9
2023 131 11th lowest of 15 · 149% of median 51 1.6
2024 143 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median 61 1.2

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.