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LOWER WHEELER DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 0800910 · DITCH · TROUT CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 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).

● Fully called out — call at NEVADA DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1865-12-30).

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 1914-01-30 — 6394th 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: 2301555 (1913-12-31). Immediately behind: 0801622 (1914-12-31).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
44559.234051914-01-301972-12-31 1.50.0 CIRRSTK

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 65 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 1 AF — 2% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1986 63 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 36 1.0
1987 54 4th lowest of 15 · 83% of median 55 0.5
1988 20 3rd lowest of 15 · 31% of median 19 0.8
1990 63 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median 39 1.5
1991 83 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median 46 1.0
1992 244 14th lowest of 15 · 375% of median 83 1.5
1993 139 13th lowest of 15 · 214% of median 40 2.0
1994 60 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 31 1.0
1995 271 15th lowest of 15 · 417% of median 107 1.5
1996 107 11th lowest of 15 · 165% of median 62 1.0
1997 65 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 34 1.0
1998 65 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 26 1.5
1999 129 12th lowest of 15 · 198% of median 93 1.5
2001 8 2nd lowest of 15 · 12% of median 10 0.5
2010 1 1st lowest of 15 · 2% of median 3 0.3

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