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SELLARS GULCH DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 0801200 · DITCH · SELLERS GULCH · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.

Current administration

● Fully called out — call at CANAL 3 DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1870-04-01).

● Fully called out — call at BIG T PLATTE R DITCH (BIG THOMPSON RIVER, priority 1865-11-18).

● Fully called out — call at B H EATON DITCH (CACHE LA POUDRE RIVER, priority 1864-06-09).

● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).

● Fully called out — call at NEVADA DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1865-12-30).

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 1886-05-18 — 716th 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: 2303961 (1885-12-31). Immediately behind: 2305533 (1886-05-31).

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
13287.01886-05-181890-03-03 2.50.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 191 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 42 AF — 22% of that, and 3rd 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)
1985 525 14th lowest of 15 · 275% of median 147 2.5
1986 191 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 55 2.5
1987 202 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 137 2.5
1988 134 7th lowest of 15 · 70% of median 76 2.0
1989 38 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median 58 0.5
1990 72 4th lowest of 15 · 38% of median 33 1.5
1991 74 6th lowest of 15 · 39% of median 69 1.0
1992 328 12th lowest of 15 · 172% of median 110 2.5
1993 634 15th lowest of 15 · 332% of median 181 2.5
1994 202 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 48 2.5
1995 397 13th lowest of 15 · 208% of median 81 2.5
1998 238 11th lowest of 15 · 125% of median 61 2.0
2022 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 61 0.0
2023 72 4th lowest of 15 · 38% of median 304 4.7
2024 42 3rd lowest of 15 · 22% of median 23 1.9

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