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ORDELHEIDE WELL 2-16157
Structure dossier · WDID 0207546 · WELL · GROUNDWATER: SOUTH PLATTE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:15 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 LOWER LATHAM DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1877-11-14).
● Fully called out — call at WESTERN MUTUAL DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1871-08-09).
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 1956-01-31 — 3976th 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: LOVE WELL 5-11895 (1956-01-31). Immediately behind: 0807663 (1956-02-19).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38746.0 | 1956-01-31 | 1972-12-31 | 2.22 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 55941.0 | 2003-02-28 | 2003-12-31 | 0.0 | 4.0 | C | AUG |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
03CW0099, W1949.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
03CW0099 | 1 | 2003-12-31 | S |
W1949 | 1 | 1972-12-31 | O |
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 5 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 179 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1 AF — 1% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 5 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 184 | 5th lowest of 5 · 103% of median | 47 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 182 | 4th lowest of 5 · 102% of median | 53 | 2.3 |
| 2022 | 179 | 3rd lowest of 5 · 100% of median | 92 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 5 · 0% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 5 · 1% of median | 305 | 0.5 |
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 862 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 34% of the irrigation seasons in 2012-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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