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WADDELL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6000793 · 1 · SAN MIGUEL RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1897-05-05 — 139th 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: HIGHLINE DITCH (1897-04-26). Immediately behind: DANIELS DITCH (1896-07-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17292.0 | 1897-05-05 | 1911-06-03 | 0.53 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMDOMAUG | 82 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 25 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1999, came in at 24 AF — 96% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 1986 | 25 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 26 | 0.5 |
| 1987 | 63 | 14th lowest of 15 · 252% of median | 66 | 0.5 |
| 1988 | 35 | 10th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 73 | 0.2 |
| 1989 | 18 | 6th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 37 | 0.2 |
| 1990 | 57 | 13th lowest of 15 · 228% of median | 116 | 0.2 |
| 1991 | 37 | 11th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 76 | 0.2 |
| 1992 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 8 | 5th lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 22 | 0.2 |
| 1995 | 117 | 15th lowest of 15 · 468% of median | 133 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 34 | 9th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 113 | 0.2 |
| 1997 | 43 | 12th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 157 | 0.2 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 1999 | 24 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 49 | 0.2 |
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