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WHITTEN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2300977 · DITCH · MICHIGAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 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).
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 1880-03-15 — 592nd 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: 2301030 (1879-12-31). Immediately behind: 2305491 (1880-03-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11032.0 | 1880-03-15 | 1889-10-18 | 1.14 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 94 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 41 AF — 44% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 99 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 26 | 2.0 |
| 2003 | 65 | 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 25 | 1.5 |
| 2004 | 79 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 23 | 2.0 |
| 2005 | 182 | 11th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 47 | 2.0 |
| 2006 | 137 | 10th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 46 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 94 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 80 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 282 | 14th lowest of 15 · 300% of median | 115 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 254 | 13th lowest of 15 · 270% of median | 65 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 211 | 12th lowest of 15 · 224% of median | 75 | 2.7 |
| 2011 | 282 | 14th lowest of 15 · 300% of median | 113 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 69 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 36 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 32 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 17 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 61 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 32 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1st lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 2 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 41 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 19 | 1.1 |
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