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WOOD VALLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1000763 · 1 · FOUNTAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:42 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1866-03-01 — 54th most senior of the 2864 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: DR ROGERS DITCH (1866-03-01). Immediately behind: FOUNTAIN FTN CREEK EXCHANGE (1866-03-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5904.0 | 1866-03-01 | 1896-03-23 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,021 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 477 AF — 47% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 1,049 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 134 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 2,029 | 12th lowest of 15 · 199% of median | 286 | 7.4 |
| 2008 | 2,531 | 13th lowest of 15 · 248% of median | 366 | 9.8 |
| 2009 | 1,862 | 10th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 270 | 9.4 |
| 2010 | 2,690 | 14th lowest of 15 · 264% of median | 250 | 10.6 |
| 2011 | 2,017 | 11th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 278 | 9.4 |
| 2012 | 1,003 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 366 | 12.8 |
| 2013 | 546 | 6th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 304 | 7.6 |
| 2014 | 2,713 | 15th lowest of 15 · 266% of median | 335 | 12.8 |
| 2015 | 421 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 55 | 8.5 |
| 2016 | 458 | 4th lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 123 | 11.1 |
| 2017 | 1,021 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 181 | 11.4 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 477 | 5th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 304 | 9.0 |
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