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PIEPLANT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5901063 · 1 · TAYLOR RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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 1910-05-01 — 990th 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: FLAT TOP DITCH (1910-05-01). Immediately behind: KLINGSMITH DOMESTIC WELL (1910-09-01).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44559.22035 | 1910-05-01 | 1972-12-31 | 7.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,046 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,128 AF — 203% of that, and 13th 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 | 1,041 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 90 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 999 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 111 | 9.3 |
| 2013 | 833 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 96 | 7.5 |
| 2014 | 1,558 | 10th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 90 | 11.2 |
| 2015 | 784 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 98 | 8.0 |
| 2016 | 1,822 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 108 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 676 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 123 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 1,046 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 101 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 2,799 | 15th lowest of 15 · 268% of median | 82 | 23.4 |
| 2020 | 1,597 | 11th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 145 | 7.0 |
| 2021 | 1,427 | 9th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 126 | 12.0 |
| 2022 | 2,327 | 14th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 130 | 23.4 |
| 2023 | 353 | 1st lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 135 | 2.7 |
| 2024 | 448 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 105 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 2,128 | 13th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 155 | 23.4 |
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