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WHEATLEY DITCH NO 3

Structure dossier · WDID 5000663 · 1 · LAWRENCE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 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 1918-06-01 — 161st most senior of the 360 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: WHEATLEY DITCH NO 1 (1900-06-01). Immediately behind: KIRTZ DITCH NO 2 HG NO 1 (1930-06-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
34762.249881918-06-011964-09-05 10.00.0 CIRRDOMSTK

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 606 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 264 AF — 44% of that, and 1st 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)
2007 575 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 114 4.8
2008 759 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median 74 7.7
2009 552 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 54 8.2
2010 1,009 15th lowest of 15 · 166% of median 102 8.2
2011 965 13th lowest of 15 · 159% of median 96 8.7
2012 289 2nd lowest of 15 · 48% of median 55 5.6
2013 880 11th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 80 8.2
2014 881 12th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 112 9.2
2015 689 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median 88 6.6
2016 606 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 64 6.9
2017 968 14th lowest of 15 · 160% of median 65 10.1
2018 510 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median 63 7.3
2019 400 3rd lowest of 15 · 66% of median 64 5.0
2020 461 4th lowest of 15 · 76% of median 136 3.0
2021 264 1st lowest of 15 · 44% of median 130 2.0

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.