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PARKES DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7000578 · 1 · CLEAR 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 1908-05-05 — 73rd 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: H A NEWTON DITCH (1907-05-15). Immediately behind: OLLIS DITCH (1914-11-12).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24183.21309 | 1908-05-05 | 1916-11-25 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 153AABC |
| 27132.21684 | 1909-05-15 | 1937-01-11 | 0.61 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 167 |
| 27132.27059 | 1924-02-01 | 1937-01-11 | 2.59 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 181GG |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 122 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 122 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 70 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 159 | 9th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 49 | 2.1 |
| 1989 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 412 | 15th lowest of 15 · 338% of median | 64 | 3.8 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 340 | 13th lowest of 15 · 279% of median | 94 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 105 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 44 | 2.0 |
| 1997 | 295 | 12th lowest of 15 · 242% of median | 99 | 2.0 |
| 1998 | 354 | 14th lowest of 15 · 290% of median | 144 | 1.9 |
| 1999 | 167 | 10th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 89 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 200 | 11th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 75 | 1.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | 6th lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 28 | 0.1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
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