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EXCELSIOR DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800628 · 1 · WALTON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:21 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 1890-05-25 — 267th 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: DUCEY DITCH (1887-09-05). Immediately behind: GABIOUD DITCH (1892-06-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19630.14755 | 1890-05-25 | 1904-09-19 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 96B |
| 19997.19846 | 1904-05-03 | 1905-09-18 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 169 |
| 33145.30467 | 1933-06-01 | 1940-12-30 | 7.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 191 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 491 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 629 AF — 128% of that, and 12th 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 | 385 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 30 | 7.1 |
| 2012 | 449 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 27 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 369 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 56 | 10.0 |
| 2014 | 434 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 36 | 10.0 |
| 2015 | 634 | 13th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 56 | 10.0 |
| 2016 | 399 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 47 | 5.1 |
| 2017 | 434 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 31 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 277 | 1st lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 39 | 11.3 |
| 2019 | 605 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 32 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 491 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 34 | 11.3 |
| 2021 | 624 | 11th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 44 | 9.1 |
| 2022 | 866 | 14th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 63 | 11.3 |
| 2023 | 927 | 15th lowest of 15 · 189% of median | 49 | 11.6 |
| 2024 | 559 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 35 | 11.9 |
| 2025 | 629 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 53 | 10.0 |
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