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PRICE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800829 · 1 · ELK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 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 1886-05-02 — 27th 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: MANDALL DITCH (1885-10-20). Immediately behind: PRICE DITCH ALT PT (1886-05-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13271.0 | 1886-05-02 | 1892-09-22 | 3.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 19 |
| 57177.0 | 2006-07-18 | 2006-12-31 | 0.0 | 2.27 | C | RECFISSTKWLD |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 298 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 161 AF — 54% of that, and 4th 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 | 429 | 10th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 57 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 243 | 7th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 80 | 1.6 |
| 2013 | 1,011 | 15th lowest of 15 · 339% of median | 113 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 232 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 136 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 898 | 13th lowest of 15 · 301% of median | 88 | 10.2 |
| 2016 | 369 | 9th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 85 | 6.7 |
| 2017 | 516 | 11th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 78 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 102 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 53 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 298 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 79 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 17 | 0.2 |
| 2021 | 163 | 5th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 33 | 5.7 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 520 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 44 | 7.1 |
| 2024 | 972 | 14th lowest of 15 · 326% of median | 57 | 15.0 |
| 2025 | 161 | 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 38 | 4.0 |
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