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PALISADE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800813 · 1 · HUNT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
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 1891-05-02 — 137th 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: ANNAS DITCH (1891-05-02). Immediately behind: BRINKER CREEK DITCH (1891-05-03).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15097.0 | 1891-05-02 | 1892-09-22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | (94)106 |
| 19997.15095 | 1891-04-30 | 1905-09-18 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 105A |
| 37688.20209 | 1905-05-01 | 1957-06-22 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 401 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 490 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 646 AF — 132% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 456 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 68 | 3.6 |
| 2010 | 490 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 57 | 4.6 |
| 2011 | 402 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 40 | 5.2 |
| 2012 | 462 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 71 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 397 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 52 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 201 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 58 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 310 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 60 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 863 | 14th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 149 | 5.7 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 918 | 15th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 125 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 503 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 87 | 4.2 |
| 2022 | 550 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 100 | 3.2 |
| 2023 | 698 | 12th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 113 | 3.2 |
| 2024 | 700 | 13th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 123 | 4.3 |
| 2025 | 646 | 11th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 82 | 5.6 |
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