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REWALT PLUMMER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6800707 · 1 · UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1878-05-13 — 29th 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: PHILLIPS DITCH (1878-05-13). Immediately behind: BROWNYARD NO 3 DITCH (1878-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10360.0 | 1878-05-13 | 1897-05-15 | 0.208 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 28 |
| 29554.19844 | 1904-05-01 | 1942-05-11 | 1.667 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 68 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 30 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 76 AF — 253% of that, and 10th 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 | 122 | 11th lowest of 15 · 407% of median | 60 | 1.1 |
| 2012 | 30 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 98 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 23 | 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 118 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 91 | 0.1 |
| 2015 | 4 | 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 75 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 10 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 117 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 28 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 107 | 0.4 |
| 2018 | 23 | 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 91 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 44 | 9th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 68 | 0.6 |
| 2020 | 243 | 14th lowest of 15 · 810% of median | 171 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 24 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 86 | 0.6 |
| 2022 | 135 | 12th lowest of 15 · 450% of median | 125 | 2.8 |
| 2023 | 197 | 13th lowest of 15 · 657% of median | 198 | 2.3 |
| 2024 | 268 | 15th lowest of 15 · 893% of median | 162 | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 76 | 10th lowest of 15 · 253% of median | 141 | 0.9 |
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