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UPPER CEBOLLA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6200779 · 1 · CEBOLLA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:26 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 1882-05-01 — 23rd 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: COTTONWOOD DITCH (1882-05-01). Immediately behind: FOSTER DITCH NO 2 (1882-05-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11809.0 | 1882-05-01 | 1904-03-28 | 4.69 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 25 |
| 27585.11809 | 1882-05-01 | 1941-04-21 | 13.31 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 183 |
| 27585.19811 | 1904-03-29 | 1941-04-21 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 243 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 427 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 | 181 | 6th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 51 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 766 | 12th lowest of 15 · 179% of median | 111 | 6.2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 474 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 59 | 7.3 |
| 2018 | 799 | 13th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 68 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 1,382 | 15th lowest of 15 · 324% of median | 38 | 21.3 |
| 2020 | 632 | 10th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 74 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 1,036 | 14th lowest of 15 · 243% of median | 58 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 640 | 11th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 56 | 6.6 |
| 2023 | 337 | 7th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 58 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 427 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 51 | 5.5 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
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