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SLATER FORK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5400568 · 1 · SLATER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1885-06-01 — 4th most senior of the 724 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: MORGAN SLATER DITCH (1885-06-01). Immediately behind: MORGAN & BEELER D (1885-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12936.0 | 1885-06-01 | 1894-09-22 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 3 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 521 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 405 AF — 78% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 458 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 47 | 6.0 |
| 2011 | 1,448 | 12th lowest of 15 · 278% of median | 45 | 30.0 |
| 2012 | 3,005 | 15th lowest of 15 · 577% of median | 58 | 35.0 |
| 2013 | 2,038 | 14th lowest of 15 · 391% of median | 107 | 18.1 |
| 2014 | 1,388 | 10th lowest of 15 · 266% of median | 105 | 14.0 |
| 2015 | 521 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 82 | 6.0 |
| 2016 | 508 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 24 | 12.2 |
| 2018 | 1,408 | 11th lowest of 15 · 270% of median | 71 | 10.3 |
| 2019 | 1,828 | 13th lowest of 15 · 351% of median | 49 | 19.2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 416 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 50 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 724 | 9th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 58 | 7.8 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 400 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 14 | 18.3 |
| 2025 | 405 | 4th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 70 | 6.7 |
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