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BLESSING DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6000528 · 1 · SAN MIGUEL RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:04 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 1894-05-01 — 116th most senior of the 2893 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: NEILSON DITCH (1894-04-12). Immediately behind: RICHARDS PUMP ST NO 1 (1894-05-01).
Decreed rights (8)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16192.0 | 1894-05-01 | 1911-06-03 | 0.043 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 65 |
| 17144.0 | 1896-12-08 | 1911-06-03 | 0.169 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 80 |
| 19311.0 | 1902-11-15 | 1911-06-03 | 0.211 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 104A |
| 30604.23861 | 1915-05-01 | 1939-11-01 | 0.253 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 289 |
| 52230.16192 | 1894-05-01 | 1993-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 52230.17144 | 1896-12-08 | 1993-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 52230.19311 | 1902-11-15 | 1993-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 52230.23861 | 1915-05-01 | 1993-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 4 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 496 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 68 AF — 14% of that, and 1st lowest of the 4 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 553 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 111% of median | 135 | 3.0 |
| 1976 | 440 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 89% of median | 82 | 4.0 |
| 1977 | 754 | 4th lowest of 4 · 152% of median | 102 | 4.0 |
| 2000 | 68 | 1st lowest of 4 · 14% of median | 72 | 0.5 |
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