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FITZHUGH DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 7700536 · 1 · NAVAJO RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — 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 1888-06-21 — 20th most senior of the 187 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: LITTLE NAVAJO DITCH (1886-04-01). Immediately behind: NAVAJO MILL & IRG DITCH (1889-04-01).

Decreed rights (6)

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
14052.01888-06-211897-07-01 1.00.0 CIRR #38
14336.01889-04-011897-07-01 0.670.0 CIRR #42
17390.01897-08-111912-11-13 0.670.0 CIRR #135
25354.01919-06-021928-06-05 2.670.0 CIRR #220
28645.255661919-12-311962-04-19 4.00.0 CIRR #280
34833.01945-05-151962-04-19 4.00.0 CIRR #328

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 334 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 53 AF — 16% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

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 recordReleased (AF)Days recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 545 10th lowest of 15 · 163% of median — 161 3.4
2012 193 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median — 154 1.2
2013 712 12th lowest of 15 · 213% of median — 146 5.1
2014 150 2nd lowest of 15 · 45% of median — 148 0.8
2015 161 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median — 124 2.1
2016 294 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median — 146 1.8
2017 853 13th lowest of 15 · 255% of median — 144 7.5
2018 668 11th lowest of 15 · 200% of median — 172 4.7
2019 506 9th lowest of 15 · 152% of median — 126 4.5
2020 334 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median — 111 2.4
2021 929 14th lowest of 15 · 278% of median — 179 4.6
2022 1,252 15th lowest of 15 · 375% of median — 175 5.5
2023 260 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median — 120 3.0
2024 329 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median — 129 2.5
2025 53 1st lowest of 15 · 16% of median — 137 0.3

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.