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N B JOHNSON SEEP DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200720 · 1 · BULL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:09 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 1901-12-18 — 506th 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: FRANCIS DITCH (1901-06-10). Immediately behind: KIRKENDALL RESERVOIR (1902-07-28).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34419.18979 | 1901-12-18 | 1959-07-21 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 34419.23831 | 1915-04-01 | 1959-07-21 | 0.675 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 37041.0 | 1951-06-01 | 1959-07-21 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 58 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 56 AF — 97% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 45 | 5th lowest of 13 · 78% of median | 96 | 0.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | 1st lowest of 13 · 16% of median | 50 | 0.2 |
| 1990 | 32 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 55% of median | 105 | 0.3 |
| 1991 | 27 | 2nd lowest of 13 · 47% of median | 138 | 0.1 |
| 1992 | 36 | 4th lowest of 13 · 62% of median | 74 | 0.2 |
| 1993 | 60 | 8th lowest of 13 · 103% of median | 33 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 60 | 8th lowest of 13 · 103% of median | 59 | 0.7 |
| 1995 | 134 | 11th lowest of 13 · 231% of median | 80 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 58 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 71 | 1.5 |
| 1997 | 217 | 12th lowest of 13 · 374% of median | 173 | 1.5 |
| 1998 | 226 | 13th lowest of 13 · 390% of median | 184 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 109 | 10th lowest of 13 · 188% of median | 176 | 1.2 |
| 2001 | 56 | 6th lowest of 13 · 97% of median | 72 | 1.2 |
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