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WITHER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800940 · 1 · ELK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:17 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 1910-11-01 — 545th 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: BARTH DRAKE DITCH (1914-10-05). Immediately behind: DAY DITCH (1887-08-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24279.22219 | 1910-11-01 | 1916-07-25 | 11.38 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 195 |
| 48370.0 | 1982-06-07 | 1982-12-31 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 244 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 274 AF — 112% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 357 | 10th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 304 | 5.2 |
| 2012 | 419 | 11th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 82 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 479 | 13th lowest of 15 · 196% of median | 72 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 244 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 53 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 56 | 5th lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 41 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 9 | 4th lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 61 | 0.1 |
| 2019 | 173 | 7th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 53 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 770 | 15th lowest of 15 · 316% of median | 100 | 6.5 |
| 2021 | 440 | 12th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 83 | 8.4 |
| 2022 | 169 | 6th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 28 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 738 | 14th lowest of 15 · 302% of median | 82 | 8.3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 274 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 56 | 4.0 |
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