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VAN DEN HEUVEL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200925 · 1 · BUZZARD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:36 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 1929-05-05 — 469th 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: BROWN NO 1 DITCH (1928-05-15). Immediately behind: MARTIN CRAWFORD DITCH (1929-06-28).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30895.28979 | 1929-05-05 | 1941-07-25 | 0.625 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 25 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 107 AF — 428% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 12 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 11 | 0.6 |
| 1997 | 15 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 13 | 0.6 |
| 1998 | 46 | 10th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 40 | 0.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 9 | 0.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 13 | 0.6 |
| 2001 | 19 | 7th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 17 | 0.6 |
| 2003 | 12 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 11 | 0.6 |
| 2010 | 47 | 11th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 22 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 47 | 11th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 25 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 25 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 18 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 71 | 13th lowest of 15 · 284% of median | 31 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 27 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 28 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 108 | 15th lowest of 15 · 432% of median | 40 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 107 | 14th lowest of 15 · 428% of median | 37 | 1.5 |
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