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WALTON CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800920 · 1 · WALTON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:19 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 1887-07-20 — 53rd 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: HOOVER JACQUES DITCH (1887-07-01). Immediately behind: OAK CREEK DITCH (1887-07-25).
Decreed rights (14)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13715.0 | 1887-07-20 | 1892-09-22 | 15.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRALL | 35 |
| 15148.0 | 1891-06-22 | 1892-09-22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | (98)110 |
| 16699.15151 | 1891-06-25 | 1895-09-21 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRALL | 109 |
| 17433.15657 | 1892-11-12 | 1898-09-23 | 2.67 | 0.0 | C | IRRALL | 121 |
| 18886.14194 | 1888-11-10 | 1901-09-17 | 3.33 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMALL | 66 |
| 18898.15166 | 1891-07-10 | 1902-09-15 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMALL | 111 |
| 20351.16588 | 1895-06-01 | 1905-09-21 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRALL | 129A |
| 22187.22121 | 1910-07-26 | 1911-06-05 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRALL | 190 |
| 23270.15523 | 1892-07-01 | 1914-06-01 | 1.67 | 0.0 | C | IRRALL | 120AA |
| 33145.30467 | 1933-06-01 | 1940-12-30 | 32.83 | 0.0 | C | IRRALL | 191C |
| 52960.36676 | 1950-06-01 | 1995-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | RECFISSTKWLD | |
| 52960.52474 | 1993-09-01 | 1995-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISDOMSTK | |
| 53998.0 | 1997-11-03 | 1997-12-31 | 6.0 | 1.0 | C | IRRRECFISDOMSTK | |
| 55882.55822 | 2002-11-01 | 2003-12-31 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISFIRSTKWLD |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 10,307 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 10,159 AF — 99% of that, and 7th 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 | 11,218 | 12th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 365 | 81.5 |
| 2012 | 11,644 | 14th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 366 | 63.7 |
| 2013 | 11,800 | 15th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 365 | 67.4 |
| 2014 | 10,332 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 69.9 |
| 2015 | 7,800 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 321 | 63.1 |
| 2016 | 8,104 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 221 | 60.0 |
| 2017 | 10,616 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 259 | 83.2 |
| 2018 | 11,274 | 13th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 301 | 70.6 |
| 2019 | 6,195 | 1st lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 134 | 58.6 |
| 2020 | 9,422 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 169 | 78.4 |
| 2021 | 10,759 | 11th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 262 | 66.8 |
| 2022 | 10,307 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 335 | 67.4 |
| 2023 | 8,672 | 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 235 | 67.4 |
| 2024 | 9,882 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 198 | 77.8 |
| 2025 | 10,159 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 191 | 72.5 |
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