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GERALD VERHOEFF DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6700544 · 1 · LUBERS DRAINAGE DITCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 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 1945-05-01 — 452nd most senior of the 2116 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: RALPH MASSAR DITCH (1941-04-01). Immediately behind: GERALD VERHOEFF RESERVOIR (1945-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35301.34819 | 1945-05-01 | 1959-04-21 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 103 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 551 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 3,195 AF — 580% of that, and 15th 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 | 457 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 149 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 124 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 31 | 6.6 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.2 |
| 2013 | 42 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 21 | 4.9 |
| 2015 | 177 | 4th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 52 | 5.6 |
| 2016 | 512 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 117 | 5.4 |
| 2017 | 1,694 | 12th lowest of 15 · 307% of median | 239 | 9.9 |
| 2018 | 551 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 227 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 546 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 334 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 1,837 | 14th lowest of 15 · 333% of median | 366 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 949 | 9th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 357 | 20.8 |
| 2022 | 1,183 | 10th lowest of 15 · 215% of median | 358 | 26.8 |
| 2023 | 1,584 | 11th lowest of 15 · 288% of median | 365 | 94.4 |
| 2024 | 1,704 | 13th lowest of 15 · 309% of median | 366 | 382.7 |
| 2025 | 3,195 | 15th lowest of 15 · 580% of median | 304 | 564.3 |
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