Hydrohistorian
← My Water · Print / save as PDF
WRIGHTS CATHEDRAL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6201180 · 1 · CEBOLLA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:21 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 1950-05-01 — 774th most senior of the 1980 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: SPRING CR SPG & DITCH (1949-06-30). Immediately behind: HAWK DITCH & PIPELINE (1950-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44559.36645 | 1950-05-01 | 1972-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 350 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 350 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 211 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 158 | 1.4 |
| 2010 | 141 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 138 | 0.9 |
| 2011 | 189 | 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 146 | 1.1 |
| 2012 | 247 | 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 150 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 559 | 12th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 171 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 472 | 11th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 108 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 407 | 10th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 114 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 295 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 78 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 845 | 14th lowest of 15 · 241% of median | 148 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 906 | 15th lowest of 15 · 259% of median | 122 | 10.0 |
| 2020 | 737 | 13th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 132 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 8 | 1st lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 58 | 0.1 |
| 2022 | 369 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 153 | 2.1 |
| 2023 | 150 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 146 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 350 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 184 | 2.0 |
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.