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COLE WASTE WATER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3001871 · 1 · COTTONWOOD GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:41 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 2015-09-18 — 2201st most senior of the 2277 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: CHAPIN POND (2015-07-30). Immediately behind: COLE POND I (2015-09-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 60526.0 | 2015-09-18 | 2015-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 74 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 22 AF — 30% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 46 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 62% of median | 70 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 69 | 4th lowest of 8 · 93% of median | 108 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 80 | 5th lowest of 8 · 107% of median | 100 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 49 | 3rd lowest of 8 · 66% of median | 74 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 85 | 6th lowest of 8 · 114% of median | 92 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 147 | 8th lowest of 8 · 197% of median | 108 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 102 | 7th lowest of 8 · 137% of median | 65 | 1.0 |
| 2025 | 22 | 1st lowest of 8 · 30% of median | 49 | 0.5 |
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