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ANDERSON DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 6200504 · 1 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:51 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 1908-05-01 — 249th most senior of the 1980 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: PRICE DITCH (1907-04-01). Immediately behind: ANDERSON DITCH NO 2 (1908-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27585.21305 | 1908-05-01 | 1941-04-21 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 265 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA4742.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4742 | 1 | 1941-04-21 | 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 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 60 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2016, came in at 527 AF — 871% of that, and 14th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 62 | 8th lowest of 14 · 102% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1986 | 100 | 12th lowest of 14 · 165% of median | 49 | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 24 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 40% of median | 15 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 59 | 7th lowest of 14 · 98% of median | 62 | 0.5 |
| 1989 | 96 | 11th lowest of 14 · 159% of median | 55 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 69 | 9th lowest of 14 · 114% of median | 78 | 0.6 |
| 1991 | 38 | 5th lowest of 14 · 63% of median | 43 | 0.5 |
| 2000 | 83 | 10th lowest of 14 · 137% of median | 43 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 33 | 4th lowest of 14 · 54% of median | 39 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 242 | 13th lowest of 14 · 400% of median | 54 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 45 | 6th lowest of 14 · 74% of median | 38 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 527 | 14th lowest of 14 · 871% of median | 109 | 4.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 14 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 635 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 7% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2016 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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