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SKYLINE DITCH RELEASE STRUCTURE

Structure dossier · WDID 0304605 · OTHER · JOE WRIGHT CREEK · DWR record

Skyline Ditch Release Structure is a water structure on Joe Wright Creek in Colorado. This page is its public record: the water it has a right to, whether it may take it today, and its history, compiled from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-10-14 08:19 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (dd58e60) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

Who owns it

DWR’s own records name no owner for a ditch, reservoir or well, so this comes from the source shown and can be out of date. Organisations only: a private landowner’s name is never listed.

The record and the river

This is water crossing the divide

Skyline Ditch Release Structure is the receiving end of the Skyline Ditch (ditch). It takes water from Laramie River headwaters (Div 1, WD 48) and delivers it to Chambers Lake, Cache la Poudre (Div 1, WD 3). Water arriving here is an import: it was never in this basin’s own runoff.

Metered as a facility: SKYDCLCO — the record for the crossing itself, which may run longer than the record for either structure.

Owner / operator: Water Supply & Storage Co.

From the site’s hand-curated register of transbasin facilities. Every crossing on one page →

Where this structure is measured

GageFlowing nowRecordHow we know
SKYLINE DITCH AT CHAMBERS LAKE SKYDCLCO — 1922–2025, 38,038 days co-located, 195 m

A green link is DWR's own: either its telemetry inventory maps this WDID to that station, or the station is named for this WDID (0700553 → 0700553A). An amber one is ours — the station sits within 250 m and shares a distinctive word with this structure's name, which is a strong hint rather than a DWR statement that this gage meters this structure. Wrong? Tell us.

In short

In a median year over its last 2 recorded years it diverts 257 acre-feet.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (2 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.

Download this structure

Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.

⇩ Full record (.zip) Print / save as PDF

Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv

What is in the bundle
  • rights.csv — every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.
  • annual_use.csv — recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.
  • curtailment_now.csv — each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.
  • court_cases.csv — the cases attached to its rights.
  • co_parties.csv — the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.
  • call_climatology.csv — how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.
  • README.txt — provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (other). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Which of its rights are out of priority?

The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: no decreed right on file, so there is no priority to test.

Recorded use (last 10 years on record)

Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 257 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 200 AF — 78% of that, and 1st lowest of the 2 years with a recorded volume.

This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.

YearDiverted (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 recordReleased (AF)Days recordedPeak (cfs)
1986 — no recorded volume 1,377 0 —
1989 — no recorded volume 106 0 —
1990 — no recorded volume 347 0 —
1992 — no recorded volume 197 0 —
1999 — no recorded volume 196 0 —
2000 — no recorded volume 3,849 0 —
2001 — no recorded volume 39 0 —
2006 — no recorded volume 297 0 —
2012 314 2nd lowest of 2 · 122% of median 314 41 5.9
2022 200 1st lowest of 2 · 78% of median 200 33 4.2

How good is our record of it?

Grade C (5/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.

The rubric, component by component
CheckStateDetail
identity complete name, type, and water source all on file
decreed rights absent no water rights cached for this WDID
diversion record fragment 74 measured day(s) on file (under 180 -- a season, not a history)
record continuity unknown record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days)
published-record stability stable no upstream revisions recorded against this structure

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.

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