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JACKSON DITCH (PLATEAU)
Structure dossier · WDID 7200714 · 1 · PLATEAU CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:48 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 1892-04-01 — 114th 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: ROSA DITCH (1890-10-30). Immediately behind: KIGGINS DITCH (1892-06-12).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749.15432 | 1892-04-01 | 1905-10-14 | 0.27 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 57708.57052 | 2006-03-15 | 2008-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.024 | C | STO |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
06CW0201, CA1222.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
06CW0201 | 1 | 2008-12-31 | S |
CA1222 | 1 | 1905-10-14 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 82 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 129 AF — 157% of that, and 11th 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 | 82 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 154 | 0.3 |
| 1996 | 98 | 10th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 184 | 0.3 |
| 1997 | 69 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 59 | 0.6 |
| 1999 | 34 | 5th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 58 | 0.3 |
| 2002 | 14 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 32 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 338 | 15th lowest of 15 · 412% of median | 121 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | 4th lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 41 | 0.5 |
| 2006 | 14 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 37 | 0.2 |
| 2007 | 82 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 138 | 0.3 |
| 2010 | 177 | 12th lowest of 15 · 216% of median | 158 | 0.6 |
| 2011 | 184 | 13th lowest of 15 · 224% of median | 158 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 84 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 157 | 0.3 |
| 2014 | 220 | 14th lowest of 15 · 268% of median | 175 | 0.8 |
| 2023 | 6 | 1st lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 14 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 129 | 11th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 166 | 1.0 |
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 (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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3244 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 28% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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