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GERRICKE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7000544 · 1 · KIMBALL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:54 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.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1885-06-01 — 29th 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: FRASHIER DITCH (1885-06-01). Immediately behind: HOAGLUND-FRASIER DITCH (1885-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12936.0 | 1885-06-01 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 13255.0 | 1886-04-16 | 1889-05-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 13587.0 | 1887-03-14 | 1889-05-11 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 117 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2008, came in at 16 AF — 14% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 388 | 15th lowest of 15 · 332% of median | 52 | 5.0 |
| 1979 | 179 | 11th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 21 | 4.5 |
| 1980 | 88 | 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 13 | 3.7 |
| 1983 | 7 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 8 | 0.5 |
| 1984 | 289 | 13th lowest of 15 · 247% of median | 60 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | 1st lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 2 | 2.5 |
| 1986 | 187 | 12th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 63 | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 117 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 35 | 2.1 |
| 1993 | 144 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 42 | 2.5 |
| 1994 | 289 | 13th lowest of 15 · 247% of median | 161 | 2.0 |
| 1995 | 42 | 4th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 15 | 1.5 |
| 1998 | 117 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 38 | 1.6 |
| 1999 | 60 | 5th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 61 | 0.5 |
| 2000 | 89 | 7th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 91 | 0.5 |
| 2008 | 16 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 20 | 0.5 |
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