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PONDEROSA DITCH & POND
Structure dossier · WDID 5901467 · 1 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:46 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.
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 1963-04-25 — 1337th 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: COPLEY LAKE (1954-06-01). Immediately behind: PONDEROSA DITCH & POND (1963-04-25).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45655.41387 | 1963-04-25 | 1975-12-31 | 20.0 | 0.0 | C | STORECFIS |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
W2699.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W2699 | 1 | 1975-12-31 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,225 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 141 AF — 12% of that, and 1st 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 | 2,784 | 14th lowest of 15 · 227% of median | 304 | 9.9 |
| 2012 | 1,530 | 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 210 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 2,308 | 13th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 188 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 1,225 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 200 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 1,859 | 11th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 213 | 7.7 |
| 2016 | 1,054 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 209 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 3,364 | 15th lowest of 15 · 275% of median | 203 | 14.0 |
| 2018 | 2,279 | 12th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 179 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 1,288 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 179 | 6.2 |
| 2020 | 241 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 102 | 2.2 |
| 2021 | 1,037 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 167 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 889 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 69 | 8.9 |
| 2023 | 193 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 85 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 572 | 4th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 175 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 141 | 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 121 | 0.7 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-158 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.001).
How good is our record of it?
Grade A (9/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5115 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 81% of the irrigation seasons in 1996-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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