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SIMMONS NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7000592 · 1 · ROAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:38 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 1924-01-02 — 87th 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: FRANKLIN NO 2 DITCH (1920-04-01). Immediately behind: LONGSETH NO 1 DITCH AP (1924-02-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27132.27029 | 1924-01-02 | 1937-01-11 | 0.32 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 180 |
| 27132.27059 | 1924-02-01 | 1937-01-11 | 2.18 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 181E |
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, 2011, came in at 300 AF — 968% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7 | 4th lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 16 | 0.2 |
| 1976 | 20 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 21 | 0.5 |
| 1983 | 69 | 12th lowest of 15 · 223% of median | 45 | 1.1 |
| 1984 | 62 | 11th lowest of 15 · 200% of median | 64 | 0.5 |
| 1985 | 61 | 10th lowest of 15 · 197% of median | 63 | 0.5 |
| 1986 | 32 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 33 | 0.5 |
| 1987 | 151 | 14th lowest of 15 · 487% of median | 153 | 0.5 |
| 1989 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 26 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 11 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 122 | 13th lowest of 15 · 394% of median | 42 | 1.5 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 30 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 31 | 0.5 |
| 2009 | 31 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 32 | 0.5 |
| 2011 | 300 | 15th lowest of 15 · 968% of median | 88 | 2.5 |
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