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CENTER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7900685 · 1 · TURKEY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1868-04-18 — 34th most senior of the 930 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: R L SMITH DITCH NO 1 (1868-04-10). Immediately behind: GRIFFITHS DITCH (1868-04-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6683.0 | 1868-04-18 | 1889-06-12 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 27 |
| 22005.0 | 1910-04-01 | 1921-10-03 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 412 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 175 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 32 AF — 18% of that, and 3rd 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 | 71 | 5th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 49 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 175 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 62 | 3.2 |
| 2013 | 217 | 9th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 130 | 1.6 |
| 2014 | 118 | 7th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 73 | 2.3 |
| 2015 | 758 | 15th lowest of 15 · 433% of median | 134 | 6.2 |
| 2016 | 103 | 6th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 61 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 427 | 13th lowest of 15 · 244% of median | 148 | 3.2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 28 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 235 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 84 | 3.3 |
| 2020 | 28 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 60 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 55 | 4th lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 47 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 486 | 14th lowest of 15 · 278% of median | 230 | 2.8 |
| 2023 | 277 | 11th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 172 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 279 | 12th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 99 | 3.0 |
| 2025 | 32 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 33 | 2.3 |
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