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VICKERS BROS NO 1 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6200785 · 1 · LAKE FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:48 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 1918-05-01 — 531st 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: SEELEY DITCH NO 3 (1913-05-01). Immediately behind: VICKERS BROS NO 2 DITCH (1918-05-01).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33348.24957 | 1918-05-01 | 1960-03-30 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | FIS | 453 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 388 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 68 AF — 18% of that, and 2nd 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 | 719 | 11th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 178 | 4.1 |
| 2011 | 1,006 | 12th lowest of 15 · 259% of median | 168 | 5.5 |
| 2012 | 1,193 | 15th lowest of 15 · 308% of median | 144 | 6.0 |
| 2013 | 1,016 | 14th lowest of 15 · 262% of median | 174 | 4.8 |
| 2014 | 678 | 10th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 167 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 227 | 7th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 144 | 1.4 |
| 2017 | 150 | 5th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 141 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 153 | 6th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 68 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 1,007 | 13th lowest of 15 · 260% of median | 179 | 5.3 |
| 2020 | 457 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 162 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 388 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 108 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 148 | 4th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 139 | 0.9 |
| 2023 | 72 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 142 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 64 | 1st lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 174 | 0.5 |
| 2025 | 68 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 66 | 0.7 |
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