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SKELTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300931 · 1 · NORTH FORK WHITE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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
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 1886-05-10 — 946th 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: BAR BEL LAKES WATER SYS. (1929-09-30). Immediately behind: MARVINE DITCH 1 (1889-09-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29143.13279 | 1886-05-10 | 1930-08-18 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 310 |
| 32172.13301 | 1886-06-01 | 1942-05-26 | 2.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 334 |
| 38518.0 | 1955-06-17 | 1958-11-26 | 4.8 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 587 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 804 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 804 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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 | 1,515 | 12th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 95 | 8.3 |
| 2011 | 1,268 | 11th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 81 | 8.3 |
| 2012 | 1,025 | 9th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 69 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 1,087 | 10th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 71 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 1,844 | 13th lowest of 15 · 229% of median | 116 | 8.3 |
| 2016 | 614 | 4th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 25 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 648 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 32 | 10.9 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 158 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 17 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 647 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 55 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 789 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 89 | 10.2 |
| 2022 | 605 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 42 | 16.0 |
| 2023 | 1,947 | 14th lowest of 15 · 242% of median | 71 | 16.0 |
| 2024 | 2,219 | 15th lowest of 15 · 276% of median | 70 | 20.3 |
| 2025 | 804 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 78 | 6.9 |
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