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GENERATION 3 DITCH ALT 3
Structure dossier · WDID 7201578 · 1 · TATE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 05:23 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 1949-05-01 — 1463rd 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: GENERATION 3 DITCH ALT 2 (1949-05-01). Immediately behind: CAMEO PIPELINE (1957-11-30).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50403.3628 | 1949-05-01 | 1988-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTKOTH |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
88CW0303.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
88CW0303 | 1 | 1988-12-31 | 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 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 398 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 187 AF — 47% of that, and 1st lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 234 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 59% of median | 134 | 2.3 |
| 1997 | 544 | 7th lowest of 8 · 136% of median | 139 | 3.5 |
| 2000 | 387 | 4th lowest of 8 · 97% of median | 155 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 344 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 86% of median | 87 | 2.2 |
| 2004 | 725 | 8th lowest of 8 · 182% of median | 177 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 483 | 6th lowest of 8 · 121% of median | 134 | 2.7 |
| 2011 | 410 | 5th lowest of 8 · 103% of median | 55 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 187 | 1st lowest of 8 · 47% of median | 166 | 1.7 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 8 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1047 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 25% of the irrigation seasons in 1995-2014 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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