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SHEPHERD & WILMOT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4001195 · 1 · NORTH FORK GUNNISON RIVE · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:47 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 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 1884-03-05 — 171st 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: LANE DITCH (1883-04-01). Immediately behind: LENNOX DITCH (1884-05-05).
Decreed rights (7)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14413.12483 | 1884-03-05 | 1901-04-12 | 8.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 10 |
| 19415.16998 | 1896-07-15 | 1904-02-20 | 0.375 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 33A |
| 19415.18353 | 1900-04-01 | 1904-02-20 | 2.875 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 37 |
| 19415.18718 | 1901-04-01 | 1904-02-20 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 40 |
| 19415.19083 | 1902-04-01 | 1904-02-20 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 42 |
| 19448.0 | 1903-04-01 | 1904-02-20 | 0.425 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 43 |
| 31924.12483 | 1884-03-05 | 1954-03-20 | 3.5 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | J15 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,516 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 3,141 AF — 89% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 4,187 | 14th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 365 | 11.6 |
| 2011 | 3,831 | 13th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 365 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 3,516 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 305 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 3,509 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 268 | 12.2 |
| 2014 | 3,471 | 6th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 359 | 12.5 |
| 2015 | 3,275 | 5th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 365 | 12.0 |
| 2016 | 3,713 | 12th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 366 | 12.4 |
| 2017 | 3,217 | 4th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 345 | 10.2 |
| 2018 | 3,703 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 307 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 3,111 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 341 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 4,221 | 15th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 347 | 11.2 |
| 2021 | 3,707 | 11th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 304 | 10.1 |
| 2022 | 3,520 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 285 | 11.1 |
| 2023 | 2,911 | 1st lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 198 | 12.0 |
| 2024 | 3,141 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 240 | 10.6 |
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