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WHEELER DITCH AS REBUILT
Structure dossier · WDID 5803076 · 1 · WHEELER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:34 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 1888-09-24 — 77th 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: WHEELER DITCH NO. 2 (1888-09-24). Immediately behind: BUCKINGHAM MANDALL DITCH (1888-10-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14147.0 | 1888-09-24 | 1892-09-22 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | (58)60 |
| 34635.34635 | 1944-10-29 | 1953-03-09 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRROTH | 376 |
Recorded use (last 4 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 111 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 76 AF — 68% of that, and 1st lowest of the 4 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 116 | 3rd lowest of 4 · 104% of median | 58 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 130 | 4th lowest of 4 · 117% of median | 74 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 106 | 2nd lowest of 4 · 96% of median | 86 | 2.6 |
| 2025 | 76 | 1st lowest of 4 · 68% of median | 74 | 3.1 |
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