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LEON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200744 · 1 · LEON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 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 1890-06-12 — 112th 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: JACKSON D (WALLACE GU) (1890-06-01). Immediately behind: ROSA DITCH (1890-10-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749.14773 | 1890-06-12 | 1905-10-14 | 6.21 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 2 |
| 22995.19509 | 1903-06-01 | 1916-06-01 | 7.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 5 |
| 32811.0 | 1939-11-01 | 1941-07-25 | 3.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 220 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 89 AF — 40% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 220 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 56 | 2.1 |
| 2010 | 570 | 14th lowest of 15 · 259% of median | 71 | 6.0 |
| 2011 | 219 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 48 | 2.4 |
| 2012 | 730 | 15th lowest of 15 · 332% of median | 81 | 4.6 |
| 2013 | 285 | 12th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 31 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 221 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 58 | 2.5 |
| 2015 | 283 | 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 44 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 81 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 17 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 223 | 10th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 29 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 165 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 29 | 3.2 |
| 2019 | 173 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 39 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 167 | 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 29 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 76 | 1st lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 13 | 3.2 |
| 2022 | 336 | 13th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 59 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 89 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 31 | 1.5 |
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