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ROYAL FLUSH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300783 · 1 · EGERIA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:33 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.
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 1913-04-21 — 249th 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: QUAKER DITCH (1913-04-21). Immediately behind: COFFEE POT DITCH HGT 1 (1914-06-18).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26107.23121 | 1913-04-21 | 1921-06-29 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRSTK | 261 |
| 56247.54269 | 1998-08-01 | 2004-12-31 | 0.0 | 6.0 | C | STOIRRSTK | 261 |
| 61726.54269 | 1998-08-01 | 2019-12-31 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | 261 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 404 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 280 AF — 69% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 418 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 81 | 3.1 |
| 2010 | 305 | 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 74 | 2.7 |
| 2011 | 591 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 99 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 115 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 26 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 389 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 57 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 89 | 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 20 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 265 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 57 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 418 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 59 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 358 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 51 | 5.7 |
| 2018 | 482 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 85 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 808 | 13th lowest of 15 · 200% of median | 74 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 1,032 | 14th lowest of 15 · 255% of median | 167 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 404 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 100 | 5.7 |
| 2022 | 2,173 | 15th lowest of 15 · 538% of median | 191 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 280 | 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 87 | 1.9 |
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