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VALIER NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3600856 · 1 · WILLOW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:26 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 1922-08-01 — 368th most senior of the 1247 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: CURRAN NO 2 DITCH DIV NO 2 (1919-07-20). Immediately behind: MCKAY DITCH (1926-10-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32075.2651 | 1922-08-01 | 1952-03-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDRECDOMSNOOTH | 331 |
| 36437.0 | 1949-10-05 | 1952-03-10 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDRECDOMSNOOTH | 389 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 84 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2017, came in at 86 AF — 102% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 98 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 43 | 1.2 |
| 2004 | 125 | 12th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 55 | 1.2 |
| 2005 | 84 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 44 | 1.2 |
| 2006 | 154 | 15th lowest of 15 · 183% of median | 73 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | 7th lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 41 | 0.2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 107 | 11th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 40 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 136 | 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 45 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 145 | 14th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 76 | 1.5 |
| 2017 | 86 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 60 | 1.1 |
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