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CHARLES & ARTHUR LEIGHTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800582 · 1 · BEAR RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:44 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1890-06-15 — 133rd 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: HANGS DITCH (1890-06-01). Immediately behind: WILLOW SPRING DITCH (1890-06-18).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14776.0 | 1890-06-15 | 1892-09-22 | 1.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | (88)99 |
| 33782.16437 | 1895-01-01 | 1946-09-14 | 4.34 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 283-C |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 265 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 111 AF — 42% of that, and 2nd 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 | 967 | 15th lowest of 15 · 365% of median | 148 | 6.4 |
| 2012 | 112 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 103 | 2.4 |
| 2013 | 265 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 165 | 6.0 |
| 2014 | 278 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 46 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 138 | 4th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 77 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 797 | 14th lowest of 15 · 301% of median | 253 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 62 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 8 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 205 | 5th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 117 | 5.7 |
| 2019 | 522 | 13th lowest of 15 · 197% of median | 143 | 5.2 |
| 2020 | 419 | 11th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 113 | 6.0 |
| 2021 | 222 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 61 | 4.0 |
| 2022 | 219 | 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 72 | 2.4 |
| 2023 | 374 | 10th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 68 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 464 | 12th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 132 | 6.0 |
| 2025 | 111 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 35 | 1.8 |
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