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F D HUTCHINSON IRRIGATING DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800630 · 1 · BEAR RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:23 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 1890-07-15 — 135th 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: WILLOW SPRING DITCH (1890-06-18). Immediately behind: ANNAS DITCH (1891-05-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14806.0 | 1890-07-15 | 1892-09-22 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | (91)100 |
| 33782.2718 | 1924-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 328 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 378 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 108 AF — 29% of that, and 3rd 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 | 493 | 12th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 81 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 37 | 1st lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 76 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 460 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 104 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 796 | 15th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 70 | 8.7 |
| 2015 | 487 | 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 60 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 540 | 14th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 67 | 7.0 |
| 2017 | 267 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 90 | 6.5 |
| 2018 | 309 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 150 | 5.7 |
| 2019 | 515 | 13th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 106 | 5.3 |
| 2020 | 318 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 92 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 103 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 82 | 3.0 |
| 2022 | 159 | 4th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 69 | 2.5 |
| 2023 | 378 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 70 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 416 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 68 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 108 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 41 | 3.9 |
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