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PIONEER OF PLATEAU DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200831 · 1 · BULL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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 1887-10-01 — 60th 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: WEST SIDE DITCH (1887-09-23). Immediately behind: HIGHLINE DITCH (MESA) (1887-10-05).
Decreed rights (10)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13788.0 | 1887-10-01 | 1890-02-07 | 5.58 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 45 |
| 14149.0 | 1888-09-26 | 1890-02-07 | 1.269 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 75 |
| 14149.0 | 1888-09-26 | 1890-02-07 | 0.36 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 75 |
| 22995.14975 | 1890-12-31 | 1916-06-01 | 0.72 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 22995.16003 | 1893-10-24 | 1916-06-01 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 30895.16007 | 1893-10-28 | 1941-07-25 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | DOM | |
| 30895.23596 | 1914-08-09 | 1941-07-25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 30895.23877 | 1915-05-17 | 1941-07-25 | 0.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 30895.25355 | 1919-06-03 | 1941-07-25 | 0.81 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 32811.0 | 1939-11-01 | 1941-07-25 | 2.06 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,482 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 2,621 AF — 177% of that, and 15th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 958 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | — | 144 | 10.7 |
| 2011 | 2,134 | 13th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | — | 228 | 13.0 |
| 2012 | 879 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | — | 152 | 7.9 |
| 2013 | 893 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | — | 156 | 13.0 |
| 2014 | 1,482 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 184 | 8.7 |
| 2015 | 1,504 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | — | 202 | 9.0 |
| 2016 | 1,075 | 7th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | — | 177 | 9.0 |
| 2017 | 1,584 | 11th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | — | 161 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 828 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | — | 239 | 5.9 |
| 2019 | 1,864 | 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | — | 365 | 10.5 |
| 2020 | 1,042 | 6th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | — | 305 | 6.8 |
| 2021 | 582 | 1st lowest of 15 · 39% of median | — | 168 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 1,560 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | — | 255 | 9.4 |
| 2023 | 2,502 | 14th lowest of 15 · 169% of median | — | 349 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 2,621 | 15th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | — | 305 | 11.1 |
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.