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CARROLL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6800519 · 1 · VANCE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:22 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 1902-06-10 — 330th most senior of the 1293 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: HARRISON NO 2 DITCH (1900-07-20). Immediately behind: WIIG DITCH (1903-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40646.19153 | 1902-06-10 | 1971-09-13 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | |
| 40646.25576 | 1920-01-10 | 1971-09-13 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 10 |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA2710, 17CW3062.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2710 | 2 | 1971-09-13 | S |
17CW3062 | 4 | 1971-09-13 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 14 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 80 AF — 552% of that, and 8th lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 12 | 5th lowest of 10 · 83% of median | 30 | 0.2 |
| 1990 | 35 | 7th lowest of 10 · 241% of median | 68 | 0.5 |
| 1991 | 88 | 9th lowest of 10 · 607% of median | 162 | 0.5 |
| 1992 | 157 | 10th lowest of 10 · 1083% of median | 158 | 0.5 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 17 | 6th lowest of 10 · 117% of median | 8 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 2 | 4th lowest of 10 · 14% of median | 4 | 0.3 |
| 2025 | 80 | 8th lowest of 10 · 552% of median | 50 | 1.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 10 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 490 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 6% of the irrigation seasons in 1989-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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