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JAKE WELLS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1301017 · 1 · SPRUCE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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 1873-05-01 — 107th most senior of the 1017 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: LEGARD DITCH NO 5 (1873-05-01). Immediately behind: AUGUST KLOSE DITCH NO 3 (1873-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8522.0 | 1873-05-01 | 1894-02-03 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 18 |
| 9953.0 | 1877-04-01 | 1894-02-03 | 1.06 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 41 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 241 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 520 AF — 216% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 178 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 153 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 355 | 11th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 179 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 756 | 15th lowest of 15 · 314% of median | 124 | 3.1 |
| 1995 | 591 | 14th lowest of 15 · 245% of median | 142 | 2.1 |
| 1996 | 137 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 76 | 1.0 |
| 1997 | 303 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 154 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 188 | 7th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 78 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 470 | 12th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 182 | 3.1 |
| 2000 | 257 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 193 | 2.0 |
| 2001 | 241 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 200 | 2.0 |
| 2002 | 21 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 14 | 1.5 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 162 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 74 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 520 | 13th lowest of 15 · 216% of median | 151 | 2.1 |
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