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W A SKELTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500806 · 1 · COLORADO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:24 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.
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 1947-02-17 — 301st most senior of the 1378 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: J T PEARCE DITCH (1947-02-17). Immediately behind: DEBEQUE ALTERNATE POINT (1947-02-17).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35476.0 | 1947-02-17 | 1959-07-21 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUNINDDOM | |
| 37681.16324 | 1894-09-10 | 1965-07-09 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 212 |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
CA4954, W2915, 10CW0175, 05CW0136, 03CW0047.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA4954 | 1 | 1965-07-09 | S |
W2915 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | S |
10CW0175 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | S |
05CW0136 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | S |
03CW0047 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,807 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1995, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 7 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 1,807 | 4th lowest of 7 · 100% of median | — | 31 | 31.5 |
| 1908 | 17,309 | 7th lowest of 7 · 958% of median | — | 305 | 33.6 |
| 1985 | 2,549 | 5th lowest of 7 · 141% of median | — | 43 | 32.0 |
| 1986 | 16,067 | 6th lowest of 7 · 889% of median | — | 304 | 37.2 |
| 1989 | — | no recorded volume | 9,606 | 0 | — |
| 1990 | — | no recorded volume | 8,472 | 0 | — |
| 1991 | — | no recorded volume | 707 | 0 | — |
| 1992 | — | no recorded volume | 0 | 0 | — |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 7 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 7 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 0 | 1st lowest of 7 · 0% of median | — | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | — | no recorded volume | 369 | 0 | — |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 687 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 4% of the irrigation seasons in 1907-1996 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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