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BIG DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6200529 · 1 · CEBOLLA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:16 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 in line
Priority 1876-06-01 — 4th 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: JOHN W ANDREWS DITCH (1876-05-30). Immediately behind: FOSTER IRG D NO 4 (1876-06-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9649.0 | 1876-06-01 | 1904-03-28 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
| 27585.09649 | 1876-06-01 | 1941-04-21 | 16.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 170 |
| 27585.19811 | 1904-03-29 | 1941-04-21 | 10.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 240 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,222 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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 | 2,222 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 134 | 15.5 |
| 2011 | 1,807 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 65 | 19.1 |
| 2012 | 541 | 4th lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 57 | 5.2 |
| 2013 | 2,689 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 96 | 22.9 |
| 2014 | 6,747 | 15th lowest of 15 · 304% of median | 89 | 48.2 |
| 2015 | 410 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 45 | 5.1 |
| 2017 | 2,253 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 46 | 31.8 |
| 2018 | 3,600 | 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 61 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 3,262 | 12th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 50 | 40.5 |
| 2020 | 2,360 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 53 | 28.1 |
| 2021 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 11 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 1,571 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 46 | 22.8 |
| 2023 | 2,011 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 51 | 30.7 |
| 2024 | 3,624 | 14th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 67 | 51.6 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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