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GLEN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200640 · 1 · PLATEAU CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:15 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 1887-04-01 — 50th 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: PITTS HIGHLINE DITCH (1886-05-15). Immediately behind: GLEN PUMP NO 1 (1887-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13605.0 | 1887-04-01 | 1890-02-07 | 0.425 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 38 |
| 38181.0 | 1954-07-15 | 1959-07-21 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA8303, CA0273, 97CW0079.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA8303 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | S |
CA0273 | 1 | 1890-02-07 | O |
97CW0079 | 4 | 1890-02-07 | O |
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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 140 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 130 AF — 93% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 160 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 171 | 0.8 |
| 2004 | 186 | 14th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 125 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 177 | 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 179 | 0.5 |
| 2006 | 183 | 13th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 171 | 0.7 |
| 2007 | 23 | 1st lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 64 | 0.2 |
| 2009 | 170 | 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 174 | 0.7 |
| 2010 | 96 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 98 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 175 | 11th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 141 | 0.8 |
| 2015 | 45 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 46 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 207 | 15th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 153 | 0.8 |
| 2017 | 133 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 127 | 0.8 |
| 2018 | 120 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 153 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 119 | 4th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 144 | 0.8 |
| 2020 | 140 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 160 | 0.7 |
| 2021 | 130 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 139 | 0.7 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4464 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 41% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2021 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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