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COFFEE POT DITCH HGT 1

Structure dossier · WDID 5300535 · 1 · GRIZZLY CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1914-06-18 — 250th 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: ROYAL FLUSH DITCH (1913-04-21). Immediately behind: COFFEE POT DITCH HGT 2 (1914-06-18).

Decreed rights (4)

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
26112.235441914-06-181922-01-30 1.01.3 CIRR 244
33023.264491922-06-011956-02-07 1.60.0 CIRR 320
33023.301631932-08-011956-02-07 3.20.0 CDOM 334
37497.01952-08-301956-02-07 10.80.0 CIRR 386

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 199 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 109 AF — 55% of that, and 6th 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)
2010 375 13th lowest of 15 · 188% of median 132 8.1
2011 492 14th lowest of 15 · 247% of median 97 4.2
2012 198 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 112 1.5
2013 95 4th lowest of 15 · 48% of median 59 1.5
2014 282 10th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 100 2.1
2015 199 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 80 1.6
2016 282 10th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 112 3.7
2017 342 12th lowest of 15 · 172% of median 84 4.3
2018 8 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median 20 0.2
2019 102 5th lowest of 15 · 51% of median 94 1.2
2020 233 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median 92 2.3
2021 41 2nd lowest of 15 · 21% of median 33 0.6
2022 69 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median 55 0.7
2023 638 15th lowest of 15 · 321% of median 90 6.0
2024 109 6th lowest of 15 · 55% of median 36 1.6

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