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HYDE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6700612 · 1 · ARKANSAS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:16 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 1887-05-10 — 36th 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: IDEAL DITCH (1887-05-10). Immediately behind: HYDE DITCH APD (1887-05-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13644.0 | 1887-05-10 | 1895-07-01 | 23.44 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 8 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,496 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 4,209 AF — 169% of that, and 12th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,989 | 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | — | 244 | 16.3 |
| 2012 | 266 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 11% of median | — | 107 | 10.3 |
| 2013 | 1,576 | 6th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | — | 214 | 18.2 |
| 2014 | 2,496 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 177 | 17.9 |
| 2015 | 3,592 | 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | — | 189 | 24.2 |
| 2016 | 119 | 1st lowest of 15 · 5% of median | — | 56 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 157 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | — | 30 | 9.3 |
| 2018 | 2,804 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | — | 189 | 9.1 |
| 2019 | 4,780 | 13th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | — | 259 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 3,124 | 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | — | 326 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 350 | 4th lowest of 15 · 14% of median | — | 119 | 12.6 |
| 2022 | 418 | 5th lowest of 15 · 17% of median | — | 144 | 19.4 |
| 2023 | 5,205 | 14th lowest of 15 · 208% of median | — | 270 | 34.9 |
| 2024 | 7,319 | 15th lowest of 15 · 293% of median | — | 292 | 40.5 |
| 2025 | 4,209 | 12th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | — | 194 | 27.8 |
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