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HILL DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 7200956 · 1 · BUZZARD CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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 1897-05-01 — 747th 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: PREWETT WELL (1959-07-20). Immediately behind: CHAPMAN DITCH NO 1 (1900-06-01).

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
40013.172881897-05-011972-04-13 1.150.0 CIRR 954

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 302 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 55 AF — 18% of that, and 2nd 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)
2005 220 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median 128 1.5
2006 407 14th lowest of 15 · 135% of median 164 1.5
2009 466 15th lowest of 15 · 154% of median 171 1.5
2010 290 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 128 1.1
2011 357 13th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 138 1.5
2012 352 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median 140 1.5
2013 311 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 142 2.7
2014 356 12th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 141 1.5
2015 52 1st lowest of 15 · 17% of median 40 0.8
2016 309 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median 135 2.4
2017 302 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 194 1.1
2018 219 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median 136 1.2
2019 161 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median 112 1.2
2020 210 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median 114 1.2
2021 55 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median 62 0.9

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