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WOHLER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300886 · 1 · ELK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:44 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.
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 1886-06-30 — 202nd 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: JONES NO 1 RESERVOIR (1879-04-22). Immediately behind: HOYT DITCH (1886-12-31).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22232.1333 | 1886-06-30 | 1913-11-10 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 213 |
| 36250.0 | 1949-04-01 | 1956-02-07 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 361 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 380 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 572 AF — 150% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 703 | 13th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 114 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 364 | 4th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 52 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 428 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 70 | 4.1 |
| 2011 | 472 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 66 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 273 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 76 | 2.7 |
| 2013 | 171 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 57 | 2.3 |
| 2015 | 773 | 14th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 153 | 6.8 |
| 2016 | 372 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 98 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 380 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 105 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 109 | 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 47 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 597 | 12th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 72 | 7.0 |
| 2020 | 378 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 76 | 3.3 |
| 2022 | 369 | 5th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 56 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 1,111 | 15th lowest of 15 · 292% of median | 152 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 572 | 11th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 139 | 3.6 |
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