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L L WILSON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800721 · 1 · LAWSON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:58 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 1904-06-01 — 519th most senior of the 3097 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: WHITEMAN SCHOOL WELLSUMP (1903-07-31). Immediately behind: LAUGHLIN DITCH (1908-08-10).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23178.19875 | 1904-06-01 | 1913-09-15 | 1.18 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 172A |
| 37688.19875 | 1904-06-01 | 1957-06-22 | 2.14 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 400 |
| 50769.32627 | 1939-05-01 | 1989-12-31 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 786 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 58 AF — 7% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 730 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 164 | 6.1 |
| 2009 | 876 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 195 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 786 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 200 | 8.8 |
| 2011 | 1,413 | 15th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 154 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 272 | 4th lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 165 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 773 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 163 | 7.0 |
| 2014 | 1,007 | 13th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 191 | 6.0 |
| 2015 | 551 | 5th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 200 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 957 | 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 184 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 198 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 62 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 896 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 60 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 958 | 12th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 178 | 7.9 |
| 2023 | 1,177 | 14th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 169 | 10.9 |
| 2024 | 241 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 105 | 1.2 |
| 2025 | 58 | 1st lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 63 | 0.5 |
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