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FREEMAN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6200606 · 1 · LAKE FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:45 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1912-05-01 — 261st 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 LATERAL DITCH (1910-09-01). Immediately behind: MAURER DRAW DITCH (1913-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27585.22766 | 1912-05-01 | 1941-04-21 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 284 |
| 33348.22766 | 1912-05-01 | 1960-03-30 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 342 |
| 38137.0 | 1954-06-01 | 1960-03-30 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 428 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 265 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 60 AF — 23% 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 | 323 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 179 | 1.6 |
| 2011 | 144 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 168 | 1.4 |
| 2012 | 192 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 116 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 677 | 15th lowest of 15 · 256% of median | 175 | 3.3 |
| 2014 | 231 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 161 | 1.3 |
| 2015 | 464 | 13th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 166 | 2.2 |
| 2017 | 140 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 141 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 179 | 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 151 | 0.9 |
| 2019 | 216 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 143 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 650 | 14th lowest of 15 · 245% of median | 158 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 330 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 127 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 381 | 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 146 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 278 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 115 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 265 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 154 | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 60 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 74 | 0.6 |
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