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LAUGHLIN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800731 · 1 · SOUTH FORK LAWSON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:34 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 1908-08-10 — 520th 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: L L WILSON DITCH (1904-06-01). Immediately behind: DEER PARK WELL 1 (1913-08-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23178.21406 | 1908-08-10 | 1913-09-15 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 180-AA |
| 37688.26814 | 1923-06-01 | 1957-06-22 | 6.64 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 411 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 337 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 180 AF — 53% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 337 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 185 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 902 | 14th lowest of 15 · 268% of median | 193 | 7.0 |
| 2012 | 91 | 4th lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 48 | 1.8 |
| 2013 | 420 | 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 182 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 1,210 | 15th lowest of 15 · 359% of median | 165 | 8.0 |
| 2015 | 330 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 93 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 550 | 12th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 150 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 89 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 46 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 521 | 11th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 176 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 654 | 13th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 143 | 7.8 |
| 2021 | 20 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 21 | 0.5 |
| 2022 | 231 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 203 | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 355 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 177 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 35 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 39 | 0.5 |
| 2025 | 180 | 5th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 165 | 1.2 |
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