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Structure dossier · WDID 4300926 · 1 · WHITE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:48 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1887-01-01 — 596th most senior of the 3293 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: HAY DITCH 2 (1883-08-25). Immediately behind: MILLER CREEK DITCH (1896-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19238.13515 | 1887-01-01 | 1903-05-25 | 3.675 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 132, 133 |
| 19502.18353 | 1900-04-01 | 1903-10-06 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 142, 146, |
| 32172.18718 | 1901-04-01 | 1942-05-26 | 1.11 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 393 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 790 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,815 AF — 230% of that, and 14th 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 | 1,067 | 9th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 191 | 7.0 |
| 2011 | 678 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 61 | 7.0 |
| 2012 | 790 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 118 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 1,329 | 11th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 173 | 6.9 |
| 2014 | 1,780 | 13th lowest of 15 · 225% of median | 212 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 291 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 42 | 5.7 |
| 2017 | 1,067 | 9th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 138 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 561 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 46 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 363 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 50 | 3.8 |
| 2022 | 2,534 | 15th lowest of 15 · 321% of median | 245 | 10.6 |
| 2023 | 621 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 133 | 2.4 |
| 2024 | 1,500 | 12th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 245 | 6.9 |
| 2025 | 1,815 | 14th lowest of 15 · 230% of median | 245 | 8.0 |
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