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RIMROCK DITCHES
Structure dossier · WDID 6000829 · 1 · NATURITA 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 1965-06-01 — 1312th 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: ENEWOLD WELL (1963-03-05). Immediately behind: ROD NO 1 DITCH (1966-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45290.42155 | 1965-06-01 | 1974-12-31 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 24 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2000, came in at 12 AF — 50% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 20 | 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 43 | 0.2 |
| 1987 | 34 | 13th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 71 | 0.5 |
| 1988 | 24 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 51 | 0.2 |
| 1989 | 28 | 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 20 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 29 | 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 71 | 0.2 |
| 1991 | 3 | 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 20 | 0.1 |
| 1992 | 22 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 104 | 0.2 |
| 1993 | 41 | 14th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 88 | 0.2 |
| 1994 | 99 | 15th lowest of 15 · 412% of median | 52 | 1.2 |
| 1995 | 16 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 45 | 0.2 |
| 1996 | 19 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 26 | 0.5 |
| 1997 | 18 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 108 | 0.1 |
| 1998 | 31 | 12th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 157 | 0.1 |
| 1999 | 30 | 11th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 150 | 0.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 45 | 0.2 |
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