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WRIGHT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 8000835 · DITCH · ELK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:37 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 1885-05-01 — 701st 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: 0200849 (1885-04-01). Immediately behind: 2300889 (1885-05-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12905.0 | 1885-05-01 | 1913-05-22 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 68 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 116 AF — 171% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | 1st lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 13 | 0.2 |
| 2003 | 10 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 28 | 0.2 |
| 2004 | 22 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 24 | 0.5 |
| 2005 | 52 | 6th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 53 | 0.5 |
| 2006 | 27 | 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 31 | 0.5 |
| 2008 | 317 | 13th lowest of 15 · 466% of median | 84 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 259 | 12th lowest of 15 · 381% of median | 178 | 0.8 |
| 2010 | 516 | 15th lowest of 15 · 759% of median | 157 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 399 | 14th lowest of 15 · 587% of median | 167 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 232 | 11th lowest of 15 · 341% of median | 120 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 100 | 9th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 104 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 68 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 70 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 66 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 69 | 0.5 |
| 2018 | 48 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 49 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 116 | 10th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 119 | 0.5 |
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