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WILSON DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5400592 · 1 · BATTLE CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:28 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 1885-06-25 — 6th most senior of the 724 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: MORGAN & BEELER D (1885-06-15). Immediately behind: WILSON DITCH PUMP (1885-06-25).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
12960.01885-06-251894-09-22 0.6250.0 CIRRDOMSTK 6
37433.187791901-06-011964-06-23 2.250.0 CIRRDOMSTK 4AAAA

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 165 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 35 AF — 21% 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)
2006 413 12th lowest of 15 · 250% of median 119 2.0
2007 402 11th lowest of 15 · 244% of median 123 2.0
2008 296 9th lowest of 15 · 179% of median 107 2.1
2009 442 13th lowest of 15 · 268% of median 129 3.0
2010 468 14th lowest of 15 · 284% of median 126 3.0
2012 157 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 81 1.5
2013 479 15th lowest of 15 · 290% of median 138 2.5
2015 340 10th lowest of 15 · 206% of median 125 2.0
2016 91 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median 94 0.5
2018 90 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median 40 2.1
2019 165 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 48 1.8
2020 143 4th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 51 1.6
2021 162 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 45 1.9
2022 143 4th lowest of 15 · 87% of median 112 0.7
2023 35 1st lowest of 15 · 21% of median 77 0.2

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.