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JOHN STULTZ DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1200739 · 1 · OAK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 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.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
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 1878-05-31 — 234th most senior of the 1967 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: LEWIS LOWER DITCH (1878-05-31). Immediately behind: CHIVVIS DITCH NO 2 (1878-05-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10378.0 | 1878-05-31 | 1894-02-03 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 203 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 9 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 10 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 10 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 4 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 3 | 2.0 |
| 1982 | 28 | 14th lowest of 15 · 311% of median | 10 | 2.0 |
| 1983 | 10 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 7 | 2.0 |
| 1984 | 113 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1256% of median | 33 | 2.0 |
| 1986 | 12 | 12th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 4 | 3.0 |
| 1997 | 22 | 13th lowest of 15 · 244% of median | 14 | 1.0 |
| 1999 | 9 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 12 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 11 | 0.8 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
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