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BALDRIDGE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200523 · 1 · PLATEAU CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 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 1897-11-15 — 142nd most senior of the 2166 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: BIG CREEK RESERVOIR NO 7 (1897-09-02). Immediately behind: HARKLEROAD DITCH (1898-09-28).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749.17486 | 1897-11-15 | 1905-10-14 | 0.45 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 40013.30177 | 1932-08-15 | 1972-04-13 | 0.72 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 987 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 128 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 12 AF — 9% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 217 | 11th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 132 | 1.2 |
| 1996 | 331 | 15th lowest of 15 · 259% of median | 164 | 1.2 |
| 1997 | 274 | 13th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 120 | 1.2 |
| 1998 | 56 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 25 | 1.2 |
| 1999 | 116 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 65 | 1.2 |
| 2000 | 169 | 9th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 86 | 1.2 |
| 2001 | 180 | 10th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 104 | 1.2 |
| 2002 | 98 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 126 | 1.2 |
| 2003 | 128 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 67 | 1.2 |
| 2005 | 223 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 129 | 1.2 |
| 2006 | 93 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 48 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 4 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 3 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 72 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 32 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 323 | 14th lowest of 15 · 252% of median | 140 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 6 | 1.2 |
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