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OKLAHOMA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700809 · 1 · ILLINOIS RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:18 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 1889-04-15 — 192nd most senior of the 1262 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: HODGSON DITCH (1889-04-10). Immediately behind: OLIVE DITCH (1889-04-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14350.0 | 1889-04-15 | 1902-04-23 | 41.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 170 |
| 15151.0 | 1891-06-25 | 1892-09-19 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 243(215) |
| 21366.19478 | 1903-05-01 | 1913-01-06 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 344 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 366 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 234 AF — 64% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 421 | 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 57 | 10.9 |
| 2008 | 1,562 | 13th lowest of 15 · 427% of median | 59 | 63.2 |
| 2009 | 924 | 11th lowest of 15 · 252% of median | 27 | 21.3 |
| 2010 | 770 | 10th lowest of 15 · 210% of median | 84 | 25.1 |
| 2013 | 296 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 32 | 7.4 |
| 2015 | 365 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 55 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 1,111 | 12th lowest of 15 · 304% of median | 85 | 21.6 |
| 2017 | 346 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 58 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 1,854 | 15th lowest of 15 · 507% of median | 70 | 23.0 |
| 2020 | 366 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 61 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 216 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 30 | 8.5 |
| 2022 | 1,600 | 14th lowest of 15 · 437% of median | 92 | 17.5 |
| 2024 | 60 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 13 | 2.5 |
| 2025 | 234 | 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 60 | 3.0 |
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