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WILLIAMS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4301013 · 1 · DICKERVILLE CREEK · 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 1901-06-22 — 624th 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: STADTMAN DITCH (1892-08-18). Immediately behind: JASPER M BURCH DITCH (1902-07-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19972.188 | 1901-06-22 | 1904-09-07 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 154 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 50 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 18 AF — 36% of that, and 4th 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 | 224 | 13th lowest of 15 · 448% of median | 60 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 103 | 10th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 62 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 235 | 14th lowest of 15 · 470% of median | 85 | 2.5 |
| 2009 | 182 | 12th lowest of 15 · 364% of median | 58 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 154 | 11th lowest of 15 · 308% of median | 82 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 238 | 15th lowest of 15 · 476% of median | 81 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 38 | 6th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 39 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 57 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 40 | 0.8 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 36 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 37 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 50 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 43 | 0.6 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 38 | 6th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 99 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 18 | 4th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 13 | 0.8 |
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