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UPPER FISH POND DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6201661 · 1 · LAKE FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:27 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.
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 1882-09-01 — 223rd 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: NEW BAKER EAST SIDE D (1882-09-01). Immediately behind: BEAVER CREEK DITCH EAST (1883-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27585.11932 | 1882-09-01 | 1941-04-21 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | STOFIS | |
| 52960.49854 | 1986-06-30 | 1995-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | STOFIS |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 777 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 432 AF — 56% 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 | 1,346 | 13th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 175 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 1,153 | 9th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 168 | 4.4 |
| 2012 | 1,201 | 11th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 178 | 4.6 |
| 2013 | 1,510 | 15th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 159 | 6.1 |
| 2014 | 1,234 | 12th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 168 | 6.0 |
| 2015 | 571 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 118 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 1,356 | 14th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 149 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 1,156 | 10th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 167 | 4.8 |
| 2019 | 734 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 137 | 5.8 |
| 2020 | 632 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 128 | 4.2 |
| 2021 | 777 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 126 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 616 | 4th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 138 | 5.1 |
| 2023 | 508 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 147 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 712 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 184 | 2.0 |
| 2025 | 432 | 1st lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 73 | 3.9 |
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