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DRY FORK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7000536 · 1 · DRY FORK ROAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:40 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1886-04-12 — 36th most senior of the 519 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: CLEAR CREEK DITCH (1886-04-09). Immediately behind: OMUNDSON AND FROST DITCH (1886-04-12).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13251.0 | 1886-04-12 | 1889-05-11 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 64 |
| 13557.0 | 1887-02-12 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 13997.0 | 1888-04-27 | 1889-05-11 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 135 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 31 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 31 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 32 | 0.5 |
| 1992 | 44 | 9th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 45 | 0.5 |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 142 | 11th lowest of 15 · 458% of median | 56 | 3.5 |
| 1996 | 226 | 13th lowest of 15 · 729% of median | 109 | 1.5 |
| 1999 | 242 | 14th lowest of 15 · 781% of median | 124 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 180 | 12th lowest of 15 · 581% of median | 109 | 1.5 |
| 2002 | 14 | 5th lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 29 | 0.2 |
| 2007 | 23 | 7th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 17 | 0.8 |
| 2011 | 282 | 15th lowest of 15 · 910% of median | 97 | 1.8 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 21 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 26 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 117 | 10th lowest of 15 · 377% of median | 60 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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