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FORD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200621 · 1 · COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:58 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 1920-04-15 — 523rd 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: MCQUEARY RESERVOIR (1919-05-18). Immediately behind: HERRON DITCH A (1920-11-15).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34419.25672 | 1920-04-15 | 1959-07-21 | 0.81 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 153 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 5 AF — 3% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 74 | 5th lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 106 | 0.8 |
| 1995 | 362 | 9th lowest of 15 · 237% of median | 212 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 535 | 13th lowest of 15 · 350% of median | 334 | 1.8 |
| 1997 | 510 | 12th lowest of 15 · 333% of median | 356 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 614 | 15th lowest of 15 · 401% of median | 365 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 484 | 11th lowest of 15 · 316% of median | 357 | 0.8 |
| 2000 | 593 | 14th lowest of 15 · 388% of median | 345 | 1.6 |
| 2001 | 417 | 10th lowest of 15 · 272% of median | 265 | 1.4 |
| 2002 | 75 | 6th lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 98 | 0.8 |
| 2003 | 15 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 16 | 0.5 |
| 2015 | 87 | 7th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 52 | 2.5 |
| 2018 | 61 | 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 56 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 153 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 205 | 0.9 |
| 2020 | 29 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 38 | 0.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 5 | 0.5 |
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