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LOWER LAKE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6201047 · 1 · LAKE FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 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 1904-07-01 — 859th 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: INDIAN CREEK NORTH DITCH (1903-07-01). Immediately behind: BROWN SPG POND & PL (1910-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44925.19905 | 1904-07-01 | 1973-12-31 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 51 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2018, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 60 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 117 | 0.3 |
| 2004 | 110 | 15th lowest of 15 · 216% of median | 165 | 0.6 |
| 2005 | 92 | 14th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 163 | 0.5 |
| 2006 | 74 | 12th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 133 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 37 | 6th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 88 | 0.3 |
| 2008 | 65 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 141 | 0.4 |
| 2009 | 44 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 81 | 0.3 |
| 2010 | 51 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 88 | 0.4 |
| 2011 | 75 | 13th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 135 | 0.6 |
| 2012 | 63 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 171 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 32 | 5th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 174 | 0.3 |
| 2014 | 16 | 4th lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 122 | 0.1 |
| 2015 | 11 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 79 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 43 | 0.1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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