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WALES DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4700939 · 1 · MICHIGAN RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 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 1890-09-30 — 233rd 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: BUCKEYE DITCH (1890-09-30). Immediately behind: GOULD DITCH - BRIDGER CREEK (1890-10-01).

Decreed rights (4)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
14883.01890-09-301892-09-19 6.00.0 CIRR 237(212)
15603.01892-09-191908-07-01 6.00.0 CIRR 258
19236.01902-09-011908-07-01 2.00.0 CIRR 321
21366.192361902-09-011913-01-06 6.00.0 CIRR 342

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,160 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 898 AF — 77% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 1,160 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 50 18.0
2012 688 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median 90 12.0
2013 787 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median 62 10.0
2014 1,742 15th lowest of 15 · 150% of median 44 22.0
2015 914 7th lowest of 15 · 79% of median 72 8.8
2016 1,594 13th lowest of 15 · 137% of median 160 20.8
2017 1,471 10th lowest of 15 · 127% of median 151 17.3
2018 1,666 14th lowest of 15 · 144% of median 69 21.6
2019 1,328 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 83 22.7
2020 850 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median 119 12.0
2021 668 2nd lowest of 15 · 58% of median 55 14.5
2022 1,521 11th lowest of 15 · 131% of median 40 19.7
2023 1,566 12th lowest of 15 · 135% of median 69 11.6
2024 134 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median 21 3.4
2025 898 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median 45 12.4

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