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WEDDLE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800713 · 1 · LONG BRANCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
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 1915-09-16 — 677th most senior of the 1505 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: KNOWLES DITCH (1915-04-29). Immediately behind: SOUTH KREUGER DITCH (1917-06-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28311.23999 | 1915-09-16 | 1943-04-19 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 306 |
| 28311.24623 | 1917-06-01 | 1943-04-19 | 7.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 308 |
| 31655.0 | 1936-09-01 | 1943-04-19 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 320 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 463 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 358 AF — 77% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 535 | 11th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 105 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 73 | 1st lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 42 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 253 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 80 | 1.9 |
| 2014 | 332 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 76 | 3.6 |
| 2015 | 924 | 15th lowest of 15 · 200% of median | 123 | 5.3 |
| 2016 | 481 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 60 | 4.6 |
| 2017 | 587 | 12th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 57 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 370 | 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 118 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 463 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 121 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 511 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 116 | 3.9 |
| 2021 | 694 | 14th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 96 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 296 | 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 61 | 2.6 |
| 2023 | 139 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 66 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 665 | 13th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 71 | 5.3 |
| 2025 | 358 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 72 | 3.0 |
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