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LEHMAN HARRIS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900615 · 1 · OHIO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:34 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 1899-05-15 — 216th 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: FRANK WEINERT DITCH (1899-05-01). Immediately behind: MESA DITCH (1899-06-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18032.0 | 1899-05-15 | 1906-09-14 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 127 |
| 30667.18032 | 1899-05-15 | 1941-04-29 | 7.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 373 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 530 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 276 AF — 52% of that, and 3rd 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 | 1,786 | 15th lowest of 15 · 337% of median | 179 | 15.1 |
| 2012 | 945 | 12th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 73 | 8.8 |
| 2013 | 1,263 | 14th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 106 | 12.4 |
| 2014 | 1,214 | 13th lowest of 15 · 229% of median | 92 | 10.8 |
| 2015 | 219 | 1st lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 83 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 232 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 67 | 2.4 |
| 2017 | 410 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 63 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 381 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 68 | 4.5 |
| 2019 | 530 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 57 | 6.2 |
| 2020 | 861 | 11th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 65 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 448 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 39 | 6.6 |
| 2022 | 370 | 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 59 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 542 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 62 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 796 | 10th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 62 | 7.1 |
| 2025 | 276 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 34 | 5.0 |
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