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FAHEY-COLE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800631 · 1 · BUSHY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:33 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 1907-04-25 — 529th 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: PARK CITY NO. 1 MAIN LATERAL DITCH (1893-07-01). Immediately behind: FAHEY-COLE DITCH AP (1907-04-25).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23647.20933 | 1907-04-25 | 1914-10-02 | 2.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 176AA |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 145 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 71 AF — 49% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 606 | 15th lowest of 15 · 418% of median | 137 | 2.5 |
| 2009 | 200 | 11th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 58 | 2.5 |
| 2010 | 145 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 45 | 2.5 |
| 2011 | 198 | 10th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 41 | 2.5 |
| 2012 | 240 | 13th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 42 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 103 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 41 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 143 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 38 | 2.5 |
| 2015 | 137 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 39 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 303 | 14th lowest of 15 · 209% of median | 66 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 213 | 12th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 44 | 2.5 |
| 2021 | 57 | 1st lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 38 | 1.8 |
| 2022 | 90 | 4th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 46 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 175 | 9th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 44 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 83 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 36 | 2.3 |
| 2025 | 71 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 44 | 1.8 |
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