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OAK DALE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800807 · 1 · OAK 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 1894-07-06 — 216th 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: ASHER DITCH (1890-05-01). Immediately behind: PIONEER DITCH (1894-07-06).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18449.16258 | 1894-07-06 | 1900-07-07 | 1.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 126 |
| 18449.17076 | 1896-10-01 | 1900-07-07 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 140 |
| 41727.34102 | 1943-05-15 | 1972-05-30 | 5.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 24A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 342 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 501 AF — 146% of that, and 12th 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 | 339 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 37 | 6.6 |
| 2012 | 699 | 14th lowest of 15 · 204% of median | 147 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 713 | 15th lowest of 15 · 208% of median | 89 | 5.1 |
| 2014 | 310 | 4th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 35 | 4.9 |
| 2015 | 356 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 53 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 342 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 50 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 276 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 59 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 307 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 55 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 232 | 1st lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 41 | 6.8 |
| 2020 | 406 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 63 | 5.9 |
| 2021 | 603 | 13th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 77 | 5.9 |
| 2022 | 329 | 5th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 49 | 4.8 |
| 2023 | 331 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 36 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 412 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 46 | 5.7 |
| 2025 | 501 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 69 | 5.5 |
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