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LORIMER DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 7200755 · 1 · BUZZARD CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:41 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 1914-04-29 — 351st 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: HOSSEL GULCH DITCH (1914-04-29). Immediately behind: N F GUTHRIE DITCH NO 1 (1914-04-30).

Decreed rights (1)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
30895.234941914-04-291941-07-25 0.180.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 72 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 20 AF — 28% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2004 72 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 203 0.2
2005 109 15th lowest of 15 · 151% of median 220 0.5
2006 87 13th lowest of 15 · 121% of median 245 0.2
2008 69 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 194 0.2
2009 47 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median 133 0.2
2010 76 11th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 213 0.2
2011 68 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 192 0.2
2012 73 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 205 0.2
2013 95 14th lowest of 15 · 132% of median 198 0.5
2014 60 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 201 0.2
2015 75 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 208 0.2
2016 77 12th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 104 0.5
2019 29 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median 106 0.2
2020 37 3rd lowest of 15 · 51% of median 93 0.2
2021 20 1st lowest of 15 · 28% of median 62 0.2

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.