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HIGHLAND DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5700544 · 1 · WEST FISH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1889-09-13 — 36th most senior of the 1003 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: CONNELL DITCH (1889-08-15). Immediately behind: TOW CREEK DITCH 2 (1890-06-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14501.0 | 1889-09-13 | 1892-09-22 | 13.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 47 |
| 25918.14501 | 1889-09-13 | 1921-06-21 | 2.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 47A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 622 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 483 AF — 78% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 322 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 37 | 4.5 |
| 2012 | 1,063 | 12th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 189 | 6.1 |
| 2013 | 927 | 9th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 158 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 549 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 142 | 9.1 |
| 2015 | 1,075 | 13th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 108 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 1,120 | 14th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 162 | 12.8 |
| 2017 | 961 | 10th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 165 | 7.6 |
| 2018 | 622 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 142 | 4.5 |
| 2019 | 998 | 11th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 122 | 18.8 |
| 2020 | 354 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 119 | 6.5 |
| 2021 | 181 | 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 104 | 0.9 |
| 2022 | 549 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 176 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 1,321 | 15th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | 145 | 10.9 |
| 2024 | 190 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 85 | 1.1 |
| 2025 | 483 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 154 | 1.6 |
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