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ADOBE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800501 · 1 · FIVE PINE MESA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1903-05-08 — 611th most senior of the 3097 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: DESERT DITCH (1903-05-07). Immediately behind: ROSSI IRRIGATING DITCH (1931-08-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31920.19485 | 1903-05-08 | 1937-08-09 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 159-B-3 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 365 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 454 AF — 124% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 295 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 60 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 205 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 47 | 2.8 |
| 2003 | 304 | 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 54 | 3.3 |
| 2004 | 365 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 69 | 3.5 |
| 2009 | 708 | 14th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 78 | 5.4 |
| 2010 | 547 | 11th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 78 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 644 | 13th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 82 | 6.1 |
| 2012 | 611 | 12th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 75 | 4.6 |
| 2013 | 19 | 1st lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 15 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 31 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 43 | 0.5 |
| 2018 | 231 | 4th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 33 | 3.6 |
| 2022 | 305 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 40 | 4.2 |
| 2023 | 716 | 15th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 65 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 366 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 49 | 3.9 |
| 2025 | 454 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 66 | 6.2 |
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