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ALKATA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 8000893 · DITCH · SLAUGHTERHOUSE GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:08 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
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 1922-06-30 — 3394th most senior of the 21881 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: 8000889 (1920-05-30). Immediately behind: 8003932 (1925-06-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37703.26478 | 1922-06-30 | 1971-11-15 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA3701.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3701 | 1 | 1971-11-15 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 56 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 49 AF — 88% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 63 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 33 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 56 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 36 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 155 | 15th lowest of 15 · 277% of median | 80 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 113 | 12th lowest of 15 · 202% of median | 70 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 53 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 54 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 141 | 13th lowest of 15 · 252% of median | 231 | 0.4 |
| 2015 | 148 | 14th lowest of 15 · 264% of median | 263 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 94 | 11th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 118 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 26 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 31 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | 1st lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 12 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 22 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 40 | 0.4 |
| 2021 | 64 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 80 | 0.6 |
| 2022 | 12 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 8 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 41 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 215 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 49 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 84 | 0.6 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2281 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 22% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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