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RUSSELL NO 2 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5300785 · 1 · RED DIRT CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:28 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 1890-07-24 — 111th 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: SKINNER INTAKE DITCH (1890-07-18). Immediately behind: MIDDLE DERBY DITCH (1890-07-25).

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
14815.01890-07-241890-11-20 1.60.0 CIRR 135

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 58 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 49 AF — 84% 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)
1990 66 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 88 0.7
1991 106 12th lowest of 15 · 183% of median 89 1.0
1992 17 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median 17 0.5
1995 252 15th lowest of 15 · 434% of median 117 1.3
1996 49 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 22 1.2
1997 191 14th lowest of 15 · 329% of median 77 1.3
2000 113 13th lowest of 15 · 195% of median 65 1.0
2001 88 11th lowest of 15 · 152% of median 51 1.0
2003 58 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 40 1.0
2004 68 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median 85 0.5
2005 48 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 53 0.5
2006 41 4th lowest of 15 · 71% of median 60 0.3
2007 34 2nd lowest of 15 · 59% of median 43 0.5
2009 35 3rd lowest of 15 · 60% of median 74 0.3
2015 49 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 61 0.5

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