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WALES DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800918 · 1 · EMMA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:25 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 1916-07-15 — 748th 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: LILE SPRING (1914-06-01). Immediately behind: DIAMOND PARK DITCH (1921-06-15).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39254.24302 | 1916-07-15 | 1964-03-30 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRFISDOM | 6, 6A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 45 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 376 AF — 836% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 33 | 7th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 86 | 0.2 |
| 2002 | 18 | 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 37 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 45 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 92 | 0.2 |
| 2004 | 50 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 101 | 0.2 |
| 2011 | 166 | 14th lowest of 15 · 369% of median | 92 | 1.2 |
| 2012 | 30 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 62 | 0.2 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 26 | 5th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 70 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 47 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 99 | 0.5 |
| 2018 | 122 | 12th lowest of 15 · 271% of median | 134 | 1.9 |
| 2020 | 51 | 11th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 50 | 0.8 |
| 2022 | 132 | 13th lowest of 15 · 293% of median | 68 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 8 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 41 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 376 | 15th lowest of 15 · 836% of median | 119 | 2.5 |
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