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HANGS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800675 · 1 · LITTLE FISH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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 1890-06-01 — 132nd 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: FELIX BORGHI ALT PT NO 4 (1890-05-15). Immediately behind: CHARLES & ARTHUR LEIGHTON DITCH (1890-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14762.0 | 1890-06-01 | 1892-09-22 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 97 |
| 56161.0 | 2003-10-06 | 2003-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISOTH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 71 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 130 AF — 183% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 38 | 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 20 | 1.2 |
| 1999 | 86 | 9th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 57 | 1.2 |
| 2000 | 41 | 5th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 9 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 151 | 13th lowest of 15 · 213% of median | 218 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 87 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 319 | 0.5 |
| 2015 | 168 | 14th lowest of 15 · 237% of median | 175 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 71 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 53 | 2.2 |
| 2018 | 17 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 53 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 184 | 15th lowest of 15 · 259% of median | 94 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 64 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 50 | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 47 | 6th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 37 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 91 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 80 | 2.3 |
| 2025 | 130 | 12th lowest of 15 · 183% of median | 71 | 2.0 |
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