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WHEATLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3801090 · 1 · ROARING FORK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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.
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 1895-05-15 — 471st 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: MESA DITCH ROARING FK R (1911-05-15). Immediately behind: WHEATLEY DITCH NEW PT (1902-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29446.16571 | 1895-05-15 | 1930-09-22 | 3.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 259 |
| 30941.20513 | 1906-03-01 | 1936-08-25 | 2.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 367 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,178 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2006, came in at 1,694 AF — 144% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 282 | 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 72 | 2.0 |
| 1989 | 698 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 94 | 5.0 |
| 1990 | 913 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 178 | 5.3 |
| 1991 | 1,234 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 165 | 5.2 |
| 1992 | 1,546 | 12th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 189 | 6.6 |
| 1993 | 897 | 5th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 132 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 1,178 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 167 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 494 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 85 | 3.3 |
| 1996 | 1,409 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 159 | 6.1 |
| 1997 | 870 | 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 118 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 1,312 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 104 | 6.8 |
| 1999 | 926 | 7th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 102 | 6.2 |
| 2004 | 2,293 | 15th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 164 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 2,018 | 14th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 98 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 1,694 | 13th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 129 | 10.6 |
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