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FRANCIS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200622 · 1 · WEST SALT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:35 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 1901-06-10 — 505th 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: UTE SPRINGS PIPELINE (1900-06-01). Immediately behind: N B JOHNSON SEEP DITCH (1901-12-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34419.18788 | 1901-06-10 | 1959-07-21 | 1.57 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA8303, 84CW0218.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA8303 | 2 | 1959-07-21 | S |
84CW0218 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 97 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 54 AF — 56% of that, and 4th lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 18 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 19% of median | 17 | 0.6 |
| 1990 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 49 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 50% of median | 28 | 1.5 |
| 1996 | 330 | 12th lowest of 13 · 340% of median | 107 | 1.6 |
| 1997 | 257 | 11th lowest of 13 · 265% of median | 75 | 1.8 |
| 1998 | 330 | 12th lowest of 13 · 340% of median | 107 | 1.6 |
| 1999 | 136 | 9th lowest of 13 · 140% of median | 44 | 1.6 |
| 2000 | 167 | 10th lowest of 13 · 172% of median | 49 | 1.8 |
| 2006 | 68 | 5th lowest of 13 · 70% of median | 24 | 1.5 |
| 2007 | 100 | 8th lowest of 13 · 103% of median | 46 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 97 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 29 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 74 | 6th lowest of 13 · 76% of median | 29 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 54 | 4th lowest of 13 · 56% of median | 19 | 1.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 13 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 578 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 13% of the irrigation seasons in 1989-2010 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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