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RICHARD BALL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900658 · 1 · EAST RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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 1887-06-10 — 125th 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: MLS DITCH (1887-05-31). Immediately behind: IMOBERSTEG DITCH (1888-02-03).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13675.0 | 1887-06-10 | 1906-09-14 | 7.375 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 64 |
| 30667.13675 | 1887-06-10 | 1941-04-29 | 13.925 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 325 |
| 30667.29811 | 1931-08-15 | 1941-04-29 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 463 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,383 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 3,739 AF — 110% of that, and 10th 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 | 4,562 | 14th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 125 | 26.6 |
| 2012 | 3,953 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 131 | 17.0 |
| 2013 | 3,591 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 115 | 31.6 |
| 2014 | 1,732 | 4th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 74 | 14.8 |
| 2015 | 978 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 67 | 11.0 |
| 2016 | 1,479 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 126 | 9.1 |
| 2017 | 2,558 | 6th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 84 | 22.8 |
| 2018 | 3,383 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 118 | 28.8 |
| 2019 | 4,362 | 13th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 102 | 25.7 |
| 2020 | 2,457 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 110 | 13.6 |
| 2021 | 2,854 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 87 | 23.6 |
| 2022 | 4,240 | 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 95 | 31.6 |
| 2023 | 394 | 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 36 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 4,575 | 15th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 102 | 27.2 |
| 2025 | 3,739 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 94 | 27.2 |
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.