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WOODTICK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900698 · 1 · GOVERNMENT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:09 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 1911-08-08 — 338th most senior of the 1758 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: THODE WASTE WATER DITCH (1911-07-17). Immediately behind: REES DITCH (1914-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37503.22499 | 1911-08-08 | 1966-11-10 | 5.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 282 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 352 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2008, came in at 505 AF — 144% of that, and 12th 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 | 35 | 1st lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 40 | 0.4 |
| 1991 | 463 | 11th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 80 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 79 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 40 | 1.3 |
| 1993 | 352 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 65 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 224 | 6th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 60 | 2.4 |
| 1996 | 400 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 71 | 4.3 |
| 1997 | 630 | 15th lowest of 15 · 179% of median | 112 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 524 | 13th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 113 | 4.8 |
| 1999 | 570 | 14th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 134 | 3.2 |
| 2000 | 189 | 5th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 72 | 1.9 |
| 2001 | 105 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 53 | 1.6 |
| 2005 | 118 | 4th lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 52 | 1.5 |
| 2006 | 371 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 123 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 263 | 7th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 62 | 2.6 |
| 2008 | 505 | 12th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 89 | 4.8 |
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