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WILLIAMS CREEK LAKE RESERVOIR FEEDER DIT
Structure dossier · WDID 4001222 · 1 · WILLIAMS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:41 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 1948-05-15 — 1869th 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: BALCH DITCH NO. 5 (1948-05-03). Immediately behind: WILLIAMS CREEK LAKE RESERVOIR (1948-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35929.0 | 1948-05-15 | 1954-03-20 | 12.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | J308 |
| 58226.0 | 2009-06-01 | 2009-12-31 | 0.45 | 0.0 | C | STO | |
| 58655.0 | 2010-08-04 | 2010-12-31 | 0.36 | 0.0 | C | STO |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 106 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1997, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 166 | 13th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 79 | 4.0 |
| 1979 | 127 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 30 | 2.2 |
| 1980 | 76 | 6th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 37 | 2.0 |
| 1981 | 83 | 7th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 20 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 106 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 16 | 3.8 |
| 1983 | 126 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 17 | 4.2 |
| 1987 | 412 | 15th lowest of 15 · 389% of median | 183 | 1.3 |
| 1988 | 25 | 4th lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 36 | 0.3 |
| 1989 | 228 | 14th lowest of 15 · 215% of median | 83 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 115 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 64 | 2.0 |
| 1991 | 147 | 12th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 98 | 2.0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 30 | 5th lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 38 | 0.5 |
| 1997 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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