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SKINNER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300797 · 1 · SKINNER BRANCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:49 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 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 1887-05-10 — 55th 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: CYRUS NO 1 DITCH (1887-05-06). Immediately behind: HIGHLAND DITCH NO 1 (1887-05-10).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13644.0 | 1887-05-10 | 1890-11-20 | 0.7 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 58 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 77 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2009, came in at 24 AF — 31% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 106 | 11th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 50 | 1.2 |
| 1993 | 98 | 9th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 87 | 1.4 |
| 1994 | 33 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 25 | 0.7 |
| 1995 | 43 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 36 | 0.7 |
| 1996 | 37 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 57 | 0.3 |
| 1997 | 75 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 45 | 0.9 |
| 2000 | 155 | 12th lowest of 15 · 201% of median | 27 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 73 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 48 | 5th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 49 | 0.5 |
| 2004 | 183 | 13th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 84 | 2.0 |
| 2005 | 248 | 14th lowest of 15 · 322% of median | 101 | 2.0 |
| 2006 | 261 | 15th lowest of 15 · 339% of median | 89 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 99 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 68 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 77 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 64 | 0.7 |
| 2009 | 24 | 1st lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 50 | 0.2 |
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