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WILLIAMS IRRIGATING D
Structure dossier · WDID 7200941 · 1 · BIG SALT WASH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1884-08-08 — 5th most senior of the 2166 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: BERTHOLF FLEMING DITCH (1884-04-11). Immediately behind: RUBY AND LEE DITCH (1884-08-18).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12639.0 | 1884-08-08 | 1890-02-07 | 1.71 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 23 |
| 23444.0 | 1914-03-10 | 1916-06-01 | 1.44 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 65 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 205 AF — 315% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 452 | 12th lowest of 15 · 695% of median | 114 | 3.0 |
| 1998 | 939 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1445% of median | 132 | 8.0 |
| 1999 | 65 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 40 | 1.0 |
| 2000 | 144 | 10th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 98 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 129 | 9th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 72 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | 6th lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 22 | 0.2 |
| 2005 | 536 | 14th lowest of 15 · 825% of median | 92 | 4.0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 17 | 0.0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 35 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | 7th lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 35 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 484 | 13th lowest of 15 · 745% of median | 125 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 205 | 11th lowest of 15 · 315% of median | 51 | 3.0 |
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