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JOHN BIRD SEEPAGE & WASTE WATER DITCH NO
Structure dossier · WDID 5800708 · 1 · PHILLIPS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 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 in line
Priority 1908-06-01 — 711th 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: ALAMO DITCH 1 (1907-01-01). Immediately behind: JOHN BIRD SEEPAGE & WASTE WATER DITCH NO (1908-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37688.21336 | 1908-06-01 | 1957-06-22 | 3.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 403A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 393 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2012, came in at 256 AF — 65% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 451 | 13th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 71 | 3.2 |
| 1999 | 309 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 63 | 3.0 |
| 2000 | 379 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 89 | 3.0 |
| 2001 | 393 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 76 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 125 | 1st lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 22 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 446 | 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 76 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 494 | 15th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 84 | 3.0 |
| 2005 | 395 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 72 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 330 | 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 62 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 482 | 14th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 82 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 363 | 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 62 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 393 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 67 | 3.0 |
| 2010 | 430 | 11th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 63 | 3.5 |
| 2011 | 403 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 59 | 3.5 |
| 2012 | 256 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 64 | 3.0 |
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