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ASHER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800513 · 1 · ELK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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 1890-05-01 — 215th 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: NORTH SIDE DITCH (1898-10-23). Immediately behind: OAK DALE DITCH (1894-07-06).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18449.14731 | 1890-05-01 | 1900-07-07 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDRECFISDOMSTK | 93 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,017 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,379 AF — 68% 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 | 25 | 1st lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 12 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 369 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 114 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 5,300 | 14th lowest of 15 · 263% of median | 366 | 15.0 |
| 2013 | 7,205 | 15th lowest of 15 · 357% of median | 304 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 2,047 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 123 | 16.9 |
| 2015 | 3,602 | 13th lowest of 15 · 179% of median | 173 | 15.0 |
| 2016 | 1,085 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 123 | 6.3 |
| 2017 | 2,063 | 11th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 182 | 10.9 |
| 2018 | 2,017 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 156 | 11.2 |
| 2020 | 1,420 | 5th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 172 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 1,980 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 180 | 6.0 |
| 2022 | 1,749 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 168 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 2,241 | 12th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 183 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 2,037 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 197 | 10.0 |
| 2025 | 1,379 | 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 304 | 4.0 |
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