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WINDMILL LAKE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1700647 · 1 · POND CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:48 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 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 1905-12-30 — 98th most senior of the 1909 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: KING WELL NO 10 (1905-04-09). Immediately behind: WINDMILL LAKE RESERVOIR (1905-12-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20452.0 | 1905-12-30 | 1922-08-30 | 93.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRR | 85, R27 |
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 54 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 219 AF — 406% of that, and 8th lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 0 | 1st lowest of 8 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1970 | 0 | 1st lowest of 8 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 48 | 4th lowest of 8 · 89% of median | 4 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 203 | 7th lowest of 8 · 376% of median | 10 | 25.0 |
| 2007 | 60 | 5th lowest of 8 · 111% of median | 3 | 15.1 |
| 2012 | 188 | 6th lowest of 8 · 348% of median | 4 | 85.0 |
| 2013 | 26 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 48% of median | 2 | 13.0 |
| 2014 | 219 | 8th lowest of 8 · 406% of median | 5 | 93.0 |
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