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VALVERDE DITCH NO 5
Structure dossier · WDID 4300982 · 1 · WILDHACK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:28 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 1909-04-26 — 704th 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: MILLIGAN DITCH (1908-10-31). Immediately behind: EAST STEWART GULCH DITCH NO 1 (1899-11-01).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23255.21665 | 1909-04-26 | 1913-09-03 | 3.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 200 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 98 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 6 AF — 6% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 75 | 7th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 22 | 2.0 |
| 2007 | 171 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 94 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 190 | 13th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 32 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 133 | 9th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 23 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 311 | 14th lowest of 15 · 317% of median | 63 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 10 | 6th lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 7 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 133 | 9th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 23 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 150 | 11th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 43 | 1.8 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | 5th lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 39 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 7 | 4th lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 11 | 0.4 |
| 2023 | 445 | 15th lowest of 15 · 454% of median | 114 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 98 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 51 | 1.4 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 16 | 0.2 |
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