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PARK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900648 · 1 · CARBON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:28 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 1903-05-28 — 254th 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: BESSE AND CORTAY WW D (1903-01-14). Immediately behind: MCCORMICK DITCH (1903-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19505.0 | 1903-05-28 | 1906-09-14 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 163 |
| 33356.19505 | 1903-05-28 | 1957-06-20 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 484 |
| 38196.0 | 1954-07-30 | 1957-06-20 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 524 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 268 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 219 AF — 82% 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 | 604 | 13th lowest of 15 · 225% of median | 96 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 387 | 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 96 | 7.4 |
| 2013 | 561 | 12th lowest of 15 · 209% of median | 82 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 805 | 14th lowest of 15 · 300% of median | 64 | 10.6 |
| 2015 | 1,070 | 15th lowest of 15 · 399% of median | 134 | 8.0 |
| 2016 | 292 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 99 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 342 | 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 60 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 2 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 6 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 70 | 4th lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 59 | 0.9 |
| 2021 | 80 | 5th lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 84 | 0.9 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 268 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 81 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 129 | 6th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 71 | 1.2 |
| 2025 | 219 | 7th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 68 | 2.6 |
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