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WHITELY DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 6001567 · 1 · BIG BEAR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:29 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 1992-05-21 — 1854th 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: WHITELY DITCH NO 1 (1992-05-21). Immediately behind: PANDORA WTR STO TANK OUTFLOW (1992-09-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 52006.0 | 1992-05-21 | 1992-12-31 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 134 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 173 AF — 129% of that, and 8th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 50 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 37% of median | 63 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 138 | 7th lowest of 12 · 103% of median | 119 | 1.2 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1st lowest of 12 · 10% of median | 39 | 0.2 |
| 2016 | 174 | 9th lowest of 12 · 130% of median | 67 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 55 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 41% of median | 44 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 75 | 4th lowest of 12 · 56% of median | 93 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 185 | 10th lowest of 12 · 138% of median | 98 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 122 | 5th lowest of 12 · 91% of median | 83 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 193 | 11th lowest of 12 · 144% of median | 97 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 130 | 6th lowest of 12 · 97% of median | 68 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 316 | 12th lowest of 12 · 236% of median | 131 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 173 | 8th lowest of 12 · 129% of median | 83 | 1.5 |
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