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BARR DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5800522 · 1 · HUNT CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 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 1887-05-01 — 44th 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: SJRH DITCH #2 (1887-04-18). Immediately behind: BROOKS DITCH (1887-05-15).

Decreed rights (3)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
13635.01887-05-011892-09-22 0.710.0 CIRR 29
15475.01892-05-141892-09-22 0.290.0 CIRR 114
33782.249881918-06-011946-09-14 1.50.0 CIRR 315

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 221 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 393 AF — 178% of that, and 13th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2009 248 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 56 2.3
2010 138 5th lowest of 15 · 62% of median 52 2.3
2011 137 3rd lowest of 15 · 62% of median 40 2.0
2012 216 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 63 2.0
2013 221 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 50 2.3
2015 249 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median 99 1.4
2016 130 2nd lowest of 15 · 59% of median 61 1.4
2018 309 11th lowest of 15 · 140% of median 75 2.6
2019 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2020 137 3rd lowest of 15 · 62% of median 35 2.3
2021 167 6th lowest of 15 · 76% of median 78 1.7
2022 399 14th lowest of 15 · 180% of median 179 1.7
2023 374 12th lowest of 15 · 169% of median 113 1.7
2024 593 15th lowest of 15 · 268% of median 176 1.8
2025 393 13th lowest of 15 · 178% of median 78 3.0

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