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HIMEBAUGH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7000551 · 1 · CLEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:50 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
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 1885-05-15 — 23rd 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: COTTONWOOD DITCH ALT NO4 (1885-03-20). Immediately behind: A V AND D DITCH ALT NO 1 (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12919.0 | 1885-05-15 | 1889-05-11 | 2.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 44 |
| 24183.20953 | 1907-05-15 | 1916-11-25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 153AAB |
| 27132.27059 | 1924-02-01 | 1937-01-11 | 4.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 181FF, 181 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 331 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 366 AF — 111% 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 | 1,582 | 15th lowest of 15 · 478% of median | 145 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 1,039 | 14th lowest of 15 · 314% of median | 146 | 4.4 |
| 2013 | 216 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 51 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 270 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 45 | 5.7 |
| 2015 | 331 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 149 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 358 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 140 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 526 | 11th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 164 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 312 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 79 | 2.5 |
| 2019 | 618 | 13th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 123 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 192 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 54 | 2.6 |
| 2021 | 144 | 1st lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 53 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 304 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 61 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 153 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 54 | 2.1 |
| 2024 | 561 | 12th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 178 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 366 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 40 | 5.2 |
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