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FORD DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7800546 · 1 · DEVIL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:22 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 in line
Priority 1902-05-25 — 74th most senior of the 366 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: SNOW DITCH (1900-06-10). Immediately behind: CLAYTON-REED DITCH (1903-10-07).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19137.0 | 1902-05-25 | 1912-11-13 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #154 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 110 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 82 AF — 74% of that, and 4th 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 | 216 | 11th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 75 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 82 | 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 47 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 164 | 9th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 54 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 268 | 12th lowest of 15 · 244% of median | 68 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 312 | 13th lowest of 15 · 284% of median | 90 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 208 | 10th lowest of 15 · 189% of median | 66 | 7.4 |
| 2017 | 386 | 14th lowest of 15 · 351% of median | 102 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 7 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 19 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 110 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 60 | 3.1 |
| 2020 | 41 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 27 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 75 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 25 | 2.3 |
| 2022 | 105 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 47 | 3.2 |
| 2023 | 403 | 15th lowest of 15 · 366% of median | 80 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 110 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 33 | 2.9 |
| 2025 | 82 | 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 37 | 3.3 |
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