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WATER GULCH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6201794 · 1 · LAKE FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:30 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.
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 1995-06-30 — 1566th 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: UTE TRAIL RANCH SPRING (1993-09-02). Immediately behind: ADDINGTON POND NO 1 (1995-06-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54786.53141 | 1995-06-30 | 2000-12-31 | 1.55 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 70 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 11 AF — 16% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 77 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 148 | 0.3 |
| 2011 | 85 | 12th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 130 | 0.6 |
| 2012 | 40 | 6th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 107 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 61 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 151 | 0.3 |
| 2014 | 78 | 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 122 | 1.1 |
| 2015 | 25 | 4th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 50 | 0.3 |
| 2017 | 29 | 5th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 76 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 14 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 35 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 377 | 15th lowest of 15 · 539% of median | 137 | 1.6 |
| 2020 | 134 | 13th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 70 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 187 | 14th lowest of 15 · 267% of median | 70 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 73 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 160 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 21 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 59 | 0.2 |
| 2024 | 70 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 114 | 0.3 |
| 2025 | 11 | 1st lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 43 | 0.2 |
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