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CAMPBELL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800577 · 1 · ELK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1886-10-20 — 41st 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: MOODY DITCH (1886-08-01). Immediately behind: SOUTH SIDE DITCH (1887-04-18).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13442.0 | 1886-10-20 | 1892-09-22 | 4.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | (28)27 |
| 23944.16618 | 1895-07-01 | 1916-01-05 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 132A |
| 33782.28641 | 1928-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 331-A |
| 37688.35885 | 1948-04-01 | 1957-06-22 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 422 |
| 39254.35215 | 1946-06-01 | 1964-03-30 | 2.7 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | 21 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,485 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,691 AF — 114% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 28 | 1st lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 16 | 0.9 |
| 2012 | 1,020 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 176 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 643 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 139 | 4.3 |
| 2014 | 1,193 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 146 | 13.3 |
| 2015 | 1,036 | 5th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 140 | 5.6 |
| 2016 | 2,318 | 14th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 157 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 1,335 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 147 | 13.3 |
| 2018 | 2,211 | 11th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 165 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 1,035 | 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 173 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 2,280 | 12th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 362 | 15.1 |
| 2021 | 2,315 | 13th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 365 | 15.1 |
| 2022 | 2,444 | 15th lowest of 15 · 165% of median | 335 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 1,485 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 205 | 13.3 |
| 2024 | 1,557 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 187 | 13.3 |
| 2025 | 1,691 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 191 | 13.3 |
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