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WYLY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3801512 · 1 · LITTLE WOODY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:36 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 1901-05-01 — 424th 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: SWEET HARRIS BLUE CR HG3 (1920-08-17). Immediately behind: MARTIN SCOTT DITCH NPD (1901-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26414.18748 | 1901-05-01 | 1922-04-29 | 0.112 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 213D |
| 30941.24258 | 1916-06-01 | 1936-08-25 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 403A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 19 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 83 AF — 437% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 81 | 12th lowest of 15 · 426% of median | 90 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 103 | 14th lowest of 15 · 542% of median | 106 | 0.5 |
| 2008 | 60 | 10th lowest of 15 · 316% of median | 101 | 0.3 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 1 | 4th lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 50 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 36 | 9th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 105 | 0.5 |
| 2015 | 62 | 11th lowest of 15 · 326% of median | 64 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 15 | 7th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 70 | 0.2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 161 | 15th lowest of 15 · 847% of median | 43 | 2.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | 6th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 23 | 0.2 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5th lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 13 | 0.2 |
| 2023 | 19 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 44 | 0.3 |
| 2024 | 83 | 13th lowest of 15 · 437% of median | 184 | 0.4 |
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