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DELONGE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5800606 · 1 · LITTLE FISH CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 19:50 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 in line

Priority 1900-08-11 — 586th 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: GREER DITCH (1898-10-12). Immediately behind: EAST SIDE WASTE DITCH (1894-09-20).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
29687.184851900-08-111931-05-19 0.1660.0 CIRR 160A

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 15 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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)
1983 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 3 0.0
1988 54 13th lowest of 15 · 360% of median 83 0.5
1989 15 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 37 0.2
1990 53 12th lowest of 15 · 353% of median 41 0.8
1991 79 15th lowest of 15 · 527% of median 50 2.0
1992 6 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median 17 0.2
1993 4 3rd lowest of 15 · 27% of median 15 0.2
1994 8 6th lowest of 15 · 53% of median 17 0.2
1995 34 11th lowest of 15 · 227% of median 69 0.2
1996 71 14th lowest of 15 · 473% of median 111 0.8
1997 13 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 14 0.5
1998 15 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 20 0.5
1999 28 10th lowest of 15 · 187% of median 57 0.2
2000 7 5th lowest of 15 · 47% of median 18 0.2
2019 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0

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