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WADDELL DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3801074 · 1 · FREEMAN CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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 1885-09-15 — 186th most senior of the 4788 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: MCNULTY DITCH (1885-09-15). Immediately behind: KAISER AND SIEVERS DITCH (1885-11-02).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
13042.01885-09-151890-04-18 0.60.0 CIRR 133A
30941.203711905-10-101936-08-25 1.390.0 CIRR 366

Recorded use (last 14 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 124 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1997, came in at 407 AF — 327% of that, and 11th lowest of the 14 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1965 258 10th lowest of 14 · 207% of median 70 1.9
1967 96 4th lowest of 14 · 77% of median 30 1.7
1968 126 8th lowest of 14 · 101% of median 27 2.5
1975 123 6th lowest of 14 · 99% of median 32 2.0
1976 49 2nd lowest of 14 · 39% of median 42 0.6
1978 42 1st lowest of 14 · 34% of median 22 1.0
1979 60 3rd lowest of 14 · 48% of median 31 1.0
1980 674 13th lowest of 14 · 541% of median 170 2.0
1981 103 5th lowest of 14 · 83% of median 27 2.0
1982 123 6th lowest of 14 · 99% of median 32 2.0
1983 655 12th lowest of 14 · 526% of median 165 2.0
1984 694 14th lowest of 14 · 557% of median 175 2.0
1985 234 9th lowest of 14 · 188% of median 60 2.0
1997 407 11th lowest of 14 · 327% of median 108 4.0

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