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FRENCH DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 6200608 · 1 · LAKE FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1901-05-01 — 235th 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: FITZPATRICK D NO 2 (1900-06-01). Immediately behind: FRENCH DITCH NO 3 (1901-05-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27585.18748 | 1901-05-01 | 1941-04-21 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 232 |
| 45290.18748 | 1901-05-01 | 1974-12-31 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 988 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 741 AF — 75% of that, and 7th 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 | 1,397 | 12th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 175 | 9.2 |
| 2011 | 1,177 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 168 | 5.2 |
| 2012 | 1,415 | 13th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 185 | 5.1 |
| 2013 | 1,304 | 11th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 160 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 546 | 6th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 74 | 7.2 |
| 2015 | 267 | 4th lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 79 | 4.2 |
| 2017 | 345 | 5th lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 46 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 91 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 19 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 90 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 106 | 0.8 |
| 2021 | 988 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 103 | 11.3 |
| 2022 | 2,574 | 15th lowest of 15 · 260% of median | 169 | 11.4 |
| 2023 | 1,034 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 81 | 9.6 |
| 2024 | 1,868 | 14th lowest of 15 · 189% of median | 133 | 16.8 |
| 2025 | 741 | 7th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 81 | 12.0 |
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