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BORLAND VAIL DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5800549 · 1 · SMITH CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 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 1907-06-17 — 551st 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: E COLEMAN DITCH (1890-06-20). Immediately behind: HARVEY WELL 2 (1918-06-10).

Decreed rights (6)

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
24950.209861907-06-171918-06-27 2.130.0 CIRR 177B
25470.209861907-06-171919-09-27 1.330.0 CIRR 177BB
29051.24331916-08-121930-04-15 0.50.0 CIRR 243A
29573.210761907-09-151931-04-13 1.50.0 CIRR 243AA
32097.209861907-06-171938-06-16 1.330.0 CIRR NONE
33782.257191920-06-011946-09-14 6.040.0 CIRR 322J, 322U

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 260 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 302 AF — 116% of that, and 9th 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)
2010 766 15th lowest of 15 · 295% of median 62 8.0
2012 217 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 28 5.0
2013 165 2nd lowest of 15 · 64% of median 27 3.4
2014 395 13th lowest of 15 · 152% of median 69 5.0
2015 85 1st lowest of 15 · 33% of median 27 2.5
2016 337 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 83 2.5
2017 176 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median 45 2.5
2018 260 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 46 4.0
2019 341 12th lowest of 15 · 131% of median 66 4.0
2020 245 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 44 4.5
2021 222 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median 43 3.8
2022 397 14th lowest of 15 · 153% of median 94 5.0
2023 310 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median 71 8.0
2024 256 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 110 4.8
2025 302 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median 88 8.5

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