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WANDERING JEW DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500808 · 1 · DRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:30 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1909-11-03 — 168th 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: KERLEE DITCH (1901-03-23). Immediately behind: KAMM AND DAVIS DITCH (1910-04-01).
Decreed rights (10)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22152.21856 | 1909-11-03 | 1910-08-27 | 3.94 | 0.56 | C | IRR | 143A |
| 22232.19505 | 1903-05-28 | 1910-11-23 | 3.27 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 128BB |
| 23334.19516 | 1903-06-08 | 1913-11-21 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 128BBAB |
| 23334.21375 | 1908-07-10 | 1913-11-21 | 0.48 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 143AAA-BB |
| 23334.2149 | 1908-11-02 | 1913-11-21 | 0.72 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 143AAA-B |
| 23334.21677 | 1909-05-08 | 1913-11-21 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 143AAA1.5 |
| 23334.21863 | 1909-11-10 | 1913-11-21 | 0.24 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 143BBB |
| 23704.23136 | 1913-05-06 | 1915-01-07 | 2.72 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 147 |
| 25897.21691 | 1909-05-22 | 1920-12-14 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 143AAA-4 |
| 35915.0 | 1948-05-01 | 1953-03-02 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 200 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 299 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 434 AF — 145% of that, and 13th 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 | 101 | 4th lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 35 | 2.2 |
| 2011 | 313 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 46 | 5.4 |
| 2012 | 93 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 32 | 2.5 |
| 2013 | 210 | 7th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 40 | 6.0 |
| 2014 | 411 | 12th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 55 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 299 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 56 | 4.8 |
| 2016 | 397 | 11th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 57 | 4.8 |
| 2017 | 79 | 1st lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 24 | 1.8 |
| 2018 | 304 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 29 | 6.1 |
| 2019 | 722 | 14th lowest of 15 · 242% of median | 69 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 84 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 28 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 164 | 5th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 39 | 3.0 |
| 2022 | 202 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 80 | 2.7 |
| 2023 | 885 | 15th lowest of 15 · 296% of median | 63 | 7.2 |
| 2024 | 434 | 13th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 69 | 3.9 |
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