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CHAMBERS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6400513 · 1 · SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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 1895-05-04 — 94th most senior of the 2052 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: LAUER W 1-AD-7232(26530) (1895-04-28). Immediately behind: CONDON PUMP 3-38720-F (1895-05-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16560.0 | 1895-05-04 | 1898-11-10 | 30.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,431 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1995, came in at 5,182 AF — 151% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 5,306 | 14th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 195 | 30.0 |
| 1972 | 3,431 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 125 | 20.0 |
| 1973 | 2,529 | 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 78 | 20.0 |
| 1974 | 3,792 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 95 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 5,435 | 15th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 185 | 30.0 |
| 1980 | 3,728 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 183 | 19.4 |
| 1987 | 198 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 46 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 1,411 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 181 | 4.8 |
| 1989 | 1,186 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 176 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 1,943 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 230 | 6.4 |
| 1991 | 2,685 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 236 | 9.5 |
| 1992 | 3,890 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 283 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 4,983 | 12th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 272 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 3,320 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 198 | 10.2 |
| 1995 | 5,182 | 13th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 272 | 10.5 |
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