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HARDSCRABBLE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200662 · 1 · PLATEAU CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:44 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1888-10-10 — 102nd 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: HOOSIER DITCH (1888-10-01). Immediately behind: SUNNYSIDE NO 1 DITCH (1889-02-01).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749.14163 | 1888-10-10 | 1905-10-14 | 4.05 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 18749.16354 | 1894-10-10 | 1905-10-14 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 22995.22414 | 1911-05-15 | 1916-06-01 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 32811.0 | 1939-11-01 | 1941-07-25 | 2.11 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,463 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,752 AF — 120% of that, and 12th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,322 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 136 | 8.0 |
| 2011 | 1,372 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 172 | 18.3 |
| 2012 | 1,646 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 297 | 6.0 |
| 2013 | 1,029 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 124 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 1,480 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 150 | 8.5 |
| 2015 | 1,463 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 198 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 1,773 | 14th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 219 | 9.8 |
| 2017 | 1,862 | 15th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 285 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 1,033 | 4th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 188 | 8.5 |
| 2019 | 82 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 47 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 204 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 56 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 1,098 | 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 144 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 1,648 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 206 | 6.9 |
| 2023 | 1,755 | 13th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 161 | 9.8 |
| 2024 | 1,752 | 12th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 168 | 7.8 |
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