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LOVE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 6000677 · 1 · SAN MIGUEL RIVER · 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 1946-09-10 — 958th 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: GARDNER WELL NO 4 (1946-06-15). Immediately behind: LOVE DITCH NO 2 (1946-09-10).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
37446.353161946-09-101965-09-10 1.00.0 CIRR 540

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 194 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2005, came in at 194 AF — 100% of that, and 8th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1989 89 3rd lowest of 15 · 46% of median 181 0.2
1990 161 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 219 0.5
1991 178 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 174 1.0
1992 253 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 191 0.8
1993 159 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 200 0.8
1994 250 10th lowest of 15 · 129% of median 181 1.5
1995 257 12th lowest of 15 · 132% of median 187 1.2
1996 291 13th lowest of 15 · 150% of median 190 1.0
1997 374 15th lowest of 15 · 193% of median 191 1.5
1998 133 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median 120 0.8
1999 87 2nd lowest of 15 · 45% of median 126 0.5
2000 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 5 0.0
2001 323 14th lowest of 15 · 166% of median 174 1.5
2002 213 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 171 0.8
2005 194 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 194 0.6

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