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CARR WADDLE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 6000549 · 1 · SAN MIGUEL RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1896-07-01 — 128th most senior of the 2893 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: ALDASORO DITCH (1896-07-01). Immediately behind: DOING DITCH (1896-07-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
16984.01896-07-011911-06-03 7.50.0 CSTOIRRCOMRECFISDOMSTKAUGEVPRCH 77
51164.01990-01-301990-12-31 0.02.5 CIRRCOMRECFISDOMSTKWLD
54056.517621991-09-201998-12-31 0.010.0 CAUGEVP

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 226 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 361 AF — 160% of that, and 12th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2009 140 7th lowest of 15 · 62% of median 67 6.2
2011 368 13th lowest of 15 · 163% of median 119 3.6
2012 319 11th lowest of 15 · 141% of median 101 3.5
2013 21 1st lowest of 15 · 9% of median 117 0.1
2014 25 2nd lowest of 15 · 11% of median 151 0.2
2015 501 15th lowest of 15 · 222% of median 149 4.7
2016 35 3rd lowest of 15 · 16% of median 108 0.3
2017 227 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 140 2.7
2018 248 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median 154 1.6
2019 85 4th lowest of 15 · 38% of median 83 0.9
2020 417 14th lowest of 15 · 184% of median 172 2.1
2021 118 6th lowest of 15 · 52% of median 114 1.4
2022 226 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 163 1.6
2023 90 5th lowest of 15 · 40% of median 74 0.9
2024 361 12th lowest of 15 · 160% of median 156 1.9

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.