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PERKINS DITCH - YELLOWJACKET CREEK
Structure dossier · WDID 7800599 · 1 · YELLOWJACKET CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 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 1878-04-03 — 81st 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: VIC JOHNSON DITCH (1911-06-15). Immediately behind: PERKINS DITCH AP - YELLOWJACKET CREEK (1878-04-03).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22962.1032 | 1878-04-03 | 1928-06-05 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #183 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 7 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2011, came in at 13 AF — 186% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 7 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 175 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 7 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 172 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 7 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 168 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 6 | 4th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 157 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 7 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 186 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 170 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 5 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 124 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 7 | 6th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 178 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 24 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 6 | 4th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 155 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 28 | 14th lowest of 15 · 400% of median | 191 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2009 | 11 | 12th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 50 | 0.2 |
| 2010 | 39 | 15th lowest of 15 · 557% of median | 123 | 0.4 |
| 2011 | 13 | 13th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 53 | 0.2 |
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