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HANKS VALLEY DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 6000625 · 1 · HORSEFLY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 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 1916-07-02 — 736th 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: HANKS VALLEY DITCH NO 1 (1916-07-02). Immediately behind: HARDSCRABBLE DITCH (1916-07-02).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25826.24289 | 1916-07-02 | 1929-02-26 | 3.26 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 163 |
| 31989.0 | 1937-08-01 | 1939-11-01 | 1.74 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 357 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 251 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 170 AF — 68% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 208 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 175 | 1.9 |
| 2011 | 166 | 4th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 122 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 189 | 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 55 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 393 | 12th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 143 | 2.5 |
| 2014 | 65 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 42 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 382 | 11th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 116 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 295 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 78 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 324 | 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 54 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 29 | 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 29 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 799 | 15th lowest of 15 · 318% of median | 71 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 251 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 41 | 5.0 |
| 2021 | 120 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 52 | 3.0 |
| 2022 | 427 | 13th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 66 | 6.0 |
| 2023 | 472 | 14th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 108 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 170 | 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 95 | 2.0 |
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