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SELBY IRRIGATING DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7300538 · 1 · COATES CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1883-05-10 — 15th most senior of the 221 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: STOCK WATER (KING) (1906-02-24). Immediately behind: COOK IRRIGATING DITCH (1886-11-26).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22848.12183 | 1883-05-10 | 1916-06-01 | 1.44 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 202 |
| 22848.13479 | 1886-11-26 | 1916-06-01 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 206 |
| 22848.19144 | 1902-06-01 | 1916-06-01 | 0.45 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 266 |
| 30895.3074 | 1934-03-01 | 1941-07-25 | 3.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 584 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 346 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 126 AF — 36% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 631 | 11th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 116 | 5.4 |
| 2012 | 334 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 113 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 154 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 84 | 1.6 |
| 2014 | 409 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 126 | 6.0 |
| 2015 | 250 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 111 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 682 | 12th lowest of 15 · 197% of median | 170 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 698 | 13th lowest of 15 · 202% of median | 158 | 5.2 |
| 2018 | 138 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 72 | 2.6 |
| 2019 | 750 | 15th lowest of 15 · 217% of median | 174 | 5.3 |
| 2020 | 277 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 79 | 4.2 |
| 2021 | 162 | 4th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 56 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 482 | 10th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 97 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 706 | 14th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 153 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 346 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 84 | 4.6 |
| 2025 | 126 | 1st lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 81 | 1.8 |
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