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WILLIAMS PARK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5700623 · 1 · FISH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:27 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 1891-04-12 — 38th most senior of the 1003 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: TOW CREEK DITCH 2 (1890-06-01). Immediately behind: SHERIFF (1891-10-16).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15077.0 | 1891-04-12 | 1892-09-22 | 6.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 53 |
| 41226.41042 | 1962-05-15 | 1972-05-30 | 3.34 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | 4-A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 198 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 494 | 12th lowest of 15 · 250% of median | 53 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 785 | 14th lowest of 15 · 396% of median | 130 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 160 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 26 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 793 | 15th lowest of 15 · 400% of median | 127 | 7.1 |
| 2015 | 247 | 9th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 58 | 4.5 |
| 2016 | 166 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 54 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 325 | 11th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 90 | 3.2 |
| 2018 | 144 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 118 | 1.9 |
| 2019 | 261 | 10th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 129 | 3.2 |
| 2020 | 198 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 126 | 3.3 |
| 2021 | 509 | 13th lowest of 15 · 257% of median | 136 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 101 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 103 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 148 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 123 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 163 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 47 | 1.8 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 36 | 0.0 |
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