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TIDWELL DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 6800758 · 1 · COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:28 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 1890-04-15 — 137th 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: KEYSTONE PUMP (1889-06-01). Immediately behind: SODERQUIST WELL (1890-05-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
14715.01890-04-151897-05-15 0.3750.0 CIRR 127
17302.147151890-04-151905-08-02 0.250.0 CDOM 7

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 64 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 4 AF — 6% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 35 2nd lowest of 15 · 55% of median 80 0.3
2012 64 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 58 0.6
2013 106 12th lowest of 15 · 166% of median 91 0.8
2014 53 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 78 0.4
2015 114 13th lowest of 15 · 178% of median 120 0.7
2016 98 11th lowest of 15 · 153% of median 92 0.7
2017 37 3rd lowest of 15 · 58% of median 51 0.5
2018 134 15th lowest of 15 · 209% of median 187 0.7
2019 85 10th lowest of 15 · 133% of median 102 0.6
2020 127 14th lowest of 15 · 198% of median 162 0.6
2021 59 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 133 0.3
2022 55 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 68 0.6
2023 60 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 85 0.4
2024 69 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 80 0.6
2025 4 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median 32 0.1

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.