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WOOD PARK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000695 · 1 · YOUNGS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:53 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 in line
Priority 1891-05-01 — 1499th most senior of the 4661 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: BAINARD DITCH NO 6 (1890-05-01). Immediately behind: PEDRO RESERVOIR (1891-07-21).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29260.15096 | 1891-05-01 | 1937-05-28 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H12 |
| 31175.0 | 1935-05-10 | 1937-05-28 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | H162 |
| 47116.46309 | 1976-10-15 | 1979-12-31 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 210 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 60 AF — 29% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 231 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 100 | 50 | 3.0 |
| 2010 | 145 | 6th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 35 | 40 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 546 | 15th lowest of 15 · 260% of median | — | 67 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 84 | 5th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | — | 29 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 62 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | — | 59 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 296 | 11th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | — | 59 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 209 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 41 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 491 | 14th lowest of 15 · 234% of median | — | 78 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 291 | 10th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | — | 70 | 2.8 |
| 2019 | 447 | 13th lowest of 15 · 213% of median | — | 80 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 67 | 4th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | — | 49 | 1.7 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 210 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 57 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 365 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | — | 78 | 4.6 |
| 2024 | 60 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | — | 50 | 1.5 |
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