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HEELEY DITCH 1
Structure dossier · WDID 2300573 · DITCH · TWELVEMILE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:30 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (e70d0b5) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Current administration
● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).
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 1880-07-01 — 609th 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: 2300890 (1880-06-20). Immediately behind: 2300579 (1880-07-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11140.0 | 1880-07-01 | 1889-10-18 | 11.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 586 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 742 AF — 127% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 1,608 | 15th lowest of 15 · 274% of median | 107 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 1,004 | 14th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 93 | 8.3 |
| 2011 | 632 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 49 | 7.7 |
| 2013 | 260 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 33 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 157 | 1st lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 21 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 716 | 12th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 80 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 474 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 56 | 5.4 |
| 2017 | 586 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 73 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 545 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 67 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 433 | 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 93 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 525 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 58 | 10.5 |
| 2021 | 684 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 67 | 10.4 |
| 2022 | 205 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 31 | 5.4 |
| 2023 | 586 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 55 | 7.9 |
| 2024 | 742 | 13th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 47 | 11.0 |
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