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EKHART DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800623 · 1 · ELK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 1886-05-15 — 31st 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: BEAVER DITCH (1886-05-15). Immediately behind: STEAMBOAT LAKE DIVERSION AP NO. 2 (1886-05-15).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13284.0 | 1886-05-15 | 1892-09-22 | 4.7 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMWLD | 21 |
| 14138.0 | 1888-09-15 | 1892-09-22 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 56 |
| 22544.22517 | 1911-08-26 | 1912-07-01 | 0.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 212 |
| 33782.30467 | 1933-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 4.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 335 |
| 39254.36325 | 1949-06-15 | 1964-03-30 | 1.21 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 24 |
| 44925.42885 | 1967-06-01 | 1973-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 740 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 442 AF — 60% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 496 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 47 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 1,071 | 11th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 183 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 1,123 | 12th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 158 | 8.5 |
| 2014 | 740 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 87 | 10.0 |
| 2015 | 245 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 65 | 4.2 |
| 2016 | 167 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 45 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 1,793 | 15th lowest of 15 · 242% of median | 123 | 18.8 |
| 2018 | 1,714 | 14th lowest of 15 · 232% of median | 165 | 12.0 |
| 2019 | 92 | 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 19 | 2.6 |
| 2020 | 969 | 10th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 169 | 10.0 |
| 2021 | 1,274 | 13th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 144 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 791 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 63 | 10.0 |
| 2023 | 322 | 4th lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 56 | 7.1 |
| 2024 | 546 | 7th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 79 | 10.0 |
| 2025 | 442 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 50 | 8.8 |
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