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HOKE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7201128 · 1 · GROVE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:54 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 1968-06-01 — 1065th 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: BRASHER DITCH (1968-06-01). Immediately behind: SELLERS SPRING NO 1 (1972-01-06).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45290.43251 | 1968-06-01 | 1974-12-31 | 0.125 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | |
| 47847.43251 | 1968-06-01 | 1981-12-31 | 1.875 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
81CW0475, W2461.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
81CW0475 | 2 | 1981-12-31 | S |
W2461 | 2 | 1974-12-31 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 177 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2009, came in at 256 AF — 145% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 214 | 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 109 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 567 | 14th lowest of 15 · 320% of median | 144 | 2.0 |
| 1994 | 38 | 6th lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 150 | 0.1 |
| 1995 | 452 | 13th lowest of 15 · 255% of median | 115 | 2.0 |
| 1996 | 579 | 15th lowest of 15 · 327% of median | 147 | 2.0 |
| 1997 | 15 | 4th lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 14 | 0.6 |
| 1998 | 180 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 92 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 177 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 90 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 361 | 12th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 92 | 2.0 |
| 2002 | 32 | 5th lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 17 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 13 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 68 | 0.1 |
| 2005 | 48 | 7th lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 61 | 0.5 |
| 2009 | 256 | 11th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 130 | 1.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1613 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 32% of the irrigation seasons in 1986-2009 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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