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WONDER DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 8000785 · DITCH · DEER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:41 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (e70d0b5) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

Current administration

● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).

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 1881-06-01 — 634th most senior of the 21881 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: 8000776 (1881-06-01). Immediately behind: 8000812 (1881-06-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
11475.01881-06-011913-05-22 0.50.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 95 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 102 AF — 107% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 78 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 89 0.5
2012 28 1st lowest of 15 · 30% of median 55 5.0
2013 58 3rd lowest of 15 · 61% of median 60 0.5
2014 125 15th lowest of 15 · 132% of median 128 0.5
2015 95 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 97 0.5
2016 95 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 97 0.5
2017 102 11th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 106 0.5
2018 94 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median 99 0.5
2019 114 14th lowest of 15 · 120% of median 116 0.5
2020 40 2nd lowest of 15 · 42% of median 41 0.5
2021 96 10th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 99 0.5
2022 73 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median 77 0.5
2023 91 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 94 0.5
2024 106 13th lowest of 15 · 112% of median 113 0.5
2025 102 11th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 108 0.5

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.