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STAPLIN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1600880 · 1 · STAPLIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 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.
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 1879-07-01 — 97th most senior of the 1044 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: CF&I WELL NO 3 16310 (1878-12-31). Immediately behind: CF&I WELL NO 2 16309 (1880-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10774.0 | 1879-07-01 | 1889-06-12 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 53 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 101 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1992, came in at 22 AF — 22% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 239 | 15th lowest of 15 · 237% of median | 93 | 1.4 |
| 1974 | 180 | 11th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 181 | 0.5 |
| 1975 | 37 | 5th lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 48 | 0.4 |
| 1977 | 34 | 4th lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 35 | 0.5 |
| 1979 | 98 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 59 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 186 | 12th lowest of 15 · 184% of median | 155 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 20 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 200 | 14th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 102 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 101 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 35 | 1.5 |
| 1984 | 101 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 54 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 89 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 197 | 13th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 75 | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 121 | 10th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 105 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 22 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 29 | 0.4 |
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