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NORMAN DITCH HG 3

Structure dossier · WDID 5802000 · 1 · DUTCH CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 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 1900-11-25 — 561st 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: NORMAN DITCH HG 2 (1900-11-25). Immediately behind: AULTMAN DITCH 2 (1905-06-11).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
25389.185911900-11-251919-07-10 0.00.0 CIRR 157D
54786.330121940-05-202000-12-31 0.00.0 CIRRSTK

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 46 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 71 AF — 154% of that, and 10th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 43 5th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 24 1.5
2012 67 9th lowest of 15 · 146% of median 41 0.9
2013 46 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 37 0.8
2014 35 4th lowest of 15 · 76% of median 40 0.4
2015 45 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 22 1.8
2016 29 3rd lowest of 15 · 63% of median 13 1.6
2017 89 11th lowest of 15 · 194% of median 28 2.0
2018 130 13th lowest of 15 · 283% of median 38 2.8
2019 134 15th lowest of 15 · 291% of median 24 4.2
2020 45 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 44 0.8
2021 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2022 23 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median 33 0.5
2023 132 14th lowest of 15 · 287% of median 38 3.5
2024 101 12th lowest of 15 · 220% of median 46 2.3
2025 71 10th lowest of 15 · 154% of median 82 0.5

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.