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OAK KNOLL NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300747 · 1 · ELK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:20 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 1902-12-31 — 216th most senior of the 1231 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: WOHLER RESERVOIR (1901-06-30). Immediately behind: BALL DITCH (1904-06-30).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22232.19357 | 1902-12-31 | 1913-11-10 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 228 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 67 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 68 AF — 102% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 53 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 66 | 0.5 |
| 1997 | 141 | 13th lowest of 15 · 210% of median | 112 | 0.6 |
| 1998 | 140 | 12th lowest of 15 · 209% of median | 64 | 1.2 |
| 1999 | 30 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 34 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 60 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 62 | 0.5 |
| 2004 | 76 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 95 | 0.5 |
| 2015 | 165 | 14th lowest of 15 · 246% of median | 84 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 48 | 5th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 101 | 0.3 |
| 2017 | 67 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 131 | 0.3 |
| 2018 | 12 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 26 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 41 | 4th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 27 | 0.8 |
| 2022 | 193 | 15th lowest of 15 · 288% of median | 96 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 86 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 73 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 68 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 50 | 0.7 |
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