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CARBON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900529 · 1 · CARBON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:04 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1890-05-20 — 153rd most senior of the 2360 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: FLETCHER SKI HILL WELL (1889-06-01). Immediately behind: SLIDE DITCH (1890-05-26).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14750.0 | 1890-05-20 | 1906-09-14 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 78 |
| 20709.0 | 1906-09-13 | 1906-09-14 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 182 |
| 31197.0 | 1935-06-01 | 1941-04-29 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 470 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA2021, CA1325.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2021 | 1 | 1941-04-29 | S |
CA1325 | 2 | 1906-09-14 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 813 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 851 AF — 105% of that, and 9th 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 | 1,403 | 15th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 102 | 15.1 |
| 2012 | 268 | 1st lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 74 | 3.3 |
| 2013 | 763 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 89 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 796 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 142 | 4.4 |
| 2015 | 752 | 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 146 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 985 | 13th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 146 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 813 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 155 | 9.1 |
| 2018 | 675 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 115 | 7.2 |
| 2019 | 734 | 4th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 136 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 377 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 116 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 885 | 11th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 96 | 6.5 |
| 2022 | 915 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 169 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 991 | 14th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 170 | 5.7 |
| 2024 | 879 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 151 | 4.1 |
| 2025 | 851 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 94 | 6.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5626 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 52% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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