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NICKELL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800798 · 1 · BEAR RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:31 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 1883-06-28 — 8th 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: BIRD DITCH (1883-06-28). Immediately behind: YAMPA WATER WORKS AP 2 (1883-06-28).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12232.0 | 1883-06-28 | 1892-09-22 | 1.7 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | 4 |
| 12254.0 | 1883-07-20 | 1892-09-22 | 5.3 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM | 5 |
| 19997.19599 | 1903-08-30 | 1905-09-18 | 2.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1675A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 826 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 797 AF — 96% of that, and 7th 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 | 748 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 70 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 1,047 | 13th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 130 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 780 | 5th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 76 | 9.3 |
| 2014 | 645 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 54 | 9.3 |
| 2015 | 783 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 87 | 9.0 |
| 2016 | 631 | 1st lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 73 | 10.3 |
| 2017 | 829 | 10th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 75 | 10.5 |
| 2018 | 1,015 | 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 133 | 9.7 |
| 2019 | 773 | 4th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 108 | 9.3 |
| 2020 | 1,171 | 14th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 109 | 8.2 |
| 2021 | 826 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 92 | 7.3 |
| 2022 | 827 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 78 | 11.3 |
| 2023 | 1,325 | 15th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 99 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 995 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 86 | 9.6 |
| 2025 | 797 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 71 | 10.7 |
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