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JONES HIGHLINE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900605 · 1 · CEMENT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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.
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 1903-06-14 — 256th 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: MCCORMICK DITCH (1903-06-01). Immediately behind: PEANUT NO 1&2 DITCHES (1903-06-14).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19522.0 | 1903-06-14 | 1906-09-14 | 1.333 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 165 |
| 30667.16223 | 1894-06-01 | 1941-04-29 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 357 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 251 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 238 AF — 95% 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 | 189 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 93 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 33 | 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 53 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 301 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 68 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 283 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 137 | 8.1 |
| 2015 | 231 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 81 | 2.4 |
| 2016 | 205 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 76 | 2.4 |
| 2017 | 295 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 58 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 73 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 80 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 320 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 126 | 2.4 |
| 2020 | 202 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 69 | 1.8 |
| 2021 | 251 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 88 | 2.5 |
| 2022 | 672 | 14th lowest of 15 · 268% of median | 100 | 7.2 |
| 2023 | 1,166 | 15th lowest of 15 · 464% of median | 121 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 331 | 13th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 110 | 7.2 |
| 2025 | 238 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 67 | 2.4 |
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