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HAZEL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6200620 · 1 · LITTLE BLUE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:20 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 1951-10-01 — 568th 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: BRUCE FRANKLIN DITCH (1951-08-03). Immediately behind: SQUIRREL DITCH NO 2 (1951-10-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37163.0 | 1951-10-01 | 1960-03-30 | 13.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 409 |
| 45046.0 | 1973-05-01 | 1973-12-31 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | DOM |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
W1795, 79CW0057, CA6981.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W1795 | 1 | 1973-12-31 | S |
79CW0057 | 1 | 1973-12-31 | S |
CA6981 | 1 | 1960-03-30 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 470 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 470 AF — 100% of that, and 8th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,414 | 15th lowest of 15 · 301% of median | — | 78 | 14.4 |
| 2012 | 219 | 6th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | — | 26 | 4.6 |
| 2013 | 969 | 11th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | — | 142 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 1,315 | 14th lowest of 15 · 280% of median | — | 121 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 768 | 10th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | — | 75 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 1,055 | 12th lowest of 15 · 224% of median | 1,055 | 119 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 1,192 | 13th lowest of 15 · 254% of median | — | 95 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 537 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | — | 111 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 468 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 113 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 174 | 5th lowest of 15 · 37% of median | — | 91 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 99 | 4th lowest of 15 · 21% of median | — | 30 | 3.1 |
| 2025 | 470 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 140 | 3.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-74 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.033).
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2462 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 22% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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