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WEST RANCH CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7700592 · 1 · NAVAJO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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.
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 1916-06-23 — 40th 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: PETERSON CREEK DITCH (1916-06-21). Immediately behind: SHEEP CREEK DITCH (1922-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28645.2428 | 1916-06-23 | 1962-04-19 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 68-253 |
| 42646.0 | 1966-10-05 | 1968-12-19 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDRECFIRDOMSTK | #274, 68-2 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 405 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,175 AF — 290% of that, and 15th 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 | 231 | 5th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 76 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 104 | 1st lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 62 | 2.4 |
| 2013 | 753 | 12th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 169 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 211 | 4th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 79 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 587 | 10th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 99 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 193 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median | 43 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 395 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 76 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 659 | 11th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 87 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 530 | 9th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 75 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 105 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 55 | 2.1 |
| 2021 | 311 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 128 | 3.8 |
| 2022 | 405 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 99 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 802 | 13th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 168 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 1,061 | 14th lowest of 15 · 262% of median | 156 | 5.1 |
| 2025 | 1,175 | 15th lowest of 15 · 290% of median | 142 | 7.9 |
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