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NICKLES BROTHERS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7800590 · 1 · PIEDRA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:54 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 1964-04-15 — 185th 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: J C R DITCH ALTERNATE PT (1963-11-01). Immediately behind: NICKLES BROTHERS SPG D (1964-04-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41743.0 | 1964-04-15 | 1968-12-19 | 4.71 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 68-209 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 273 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 273 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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 | 181 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 58 | 3.1 |
| 2012 | 375 | 13th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 122 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 340 | 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 82 | 4.7 |
| 2014 | 305 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 43 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 49 | 1st lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 55 | 0.8 |
| 2016 | 400 | 14th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 127 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 258 | 5th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 86 | 1.9 |
| 2018 | 96 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 127 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 242 | 4th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 36 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 326 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 95 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 268 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 109 | 3.4 |
| 2022 | 284 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 142 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 532 | 15th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 157 | 4.6 |
| 2024 | 268 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 79 | 3.1 |
| 2025 | 273 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 90 | 2.9 |
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