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BILL AND JIM DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300512 · 1 · SWEETWATER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:04 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1918-05-01 — 300th most senior of the 1231 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: TINKER JOE DITCH (1917-08-10). Immediately behind: HENRY NO 3 DITCH (1918-06-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33023.24957 | 1918-05-01 | 1956-02-07 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRFIS | 315 |
| 37833.0 | 1953-08-01 | 1956-02-07 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRFIS | 399 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA1123.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1123 | 2 | 1956-02-07 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 252 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 520 AF — 206% of that, and 12th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 75 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 77 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 81 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 83 | 0.5 |
| 2008 | 116 | 5th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 92 | 0.6 |
| 2009 | 252 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 128 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 229 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 78 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 199 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 87 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 49 | 1st lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 50 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 95 | 4th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 66 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 494 | 11th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 170 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 542 | 13th lowest of 15 · 215% of median | 191 | 1.8 |
| 2018 | 729 | 15th lowest of 15 · 289% of median | 205 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 683 | 14th lowest of 15 · 271% of median | 207 | 3.3 |
| 2020 | 443 | 10th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 134 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 356 | 9th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 173 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 520 | 12th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 168 | 1.6 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+29 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.010).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5142 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 49% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2023 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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