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HENRY TRENCHARD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6800603 · 1 · DALLAS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 04:35 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 1881-06-01 — 63rd 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: PARK DITCH (1881-05-01). Immediately behind: UPPER UNCOMPAHGRE DITCH (1881-09-10).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11475.0 | 1881-06-01 | 1897-05-15 | 4.875 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 49 |
| 29554.11475 | 1881-06-01 | 1942-05-11 | 4.125 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 21 |
| 33733.32658 | 1939-06-01 | 1961-04-14 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | 20 |
| 33733.33733 | 1942-05-11 | 1961-04-14 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 21 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA2440, CA1959, CA0939.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2440 | 2 | 1961-04-14 | S |
CA1959 | 1 | 1942-05-11 | S |
CA0939 | 1 | 1897-05-15 | O |
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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 657 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,900 AF — 289% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 697 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 99 | 4.3 |
| 2012 | 782 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 101 | 6.9 |
| 2013 | 592 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 103 | 5.3 |
| 2014 | 278 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 109 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 367 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 111 | 5.1 |
| 2016 | 86 | 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 55 | 2.1 |
| 2017 | 633 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 160 | 6.7 |
| 2018 | 855 | 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 196 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 495 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 113 | 4.7 |
| 2020 | 1,288 | 13th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 164 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 959 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 162 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 608 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 111 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 657 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 181 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 1,359 | 14th lowest of 15 · 207% of median | 191 | 9.5 |
| 2025 | 1,900 | 15th lowest of 15 · 289% of median | 174 | 15.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+49 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.048).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 7316 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 45% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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