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SACRAMENTO DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2300760 · DITCH · SACRAMENTO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:34 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 1867-07-01 — 224th 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: 2300686 (1867-07-01). Immediately behind: 2302429 (1867-07-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6391.0 | 1867-07-01 | 1889-10-18 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | AUG | |
| 13357.0 | 1886-07-27 | 1889-10-18 | 43.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,700 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,968 AF — 116% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,241 | 4th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 58 | 16.0 |
| 2011 | 1,700 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 64 | 17.0 |
| 2012 | 18 | 1st lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 3 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 837 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 33 | 21.0 |
| 2014 | 1,637 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 69 | 21.0 |
| 2015 | 1,716 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 73 | 23.3 |
| 2016 | 1,494 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 49 | 21.9 |
| 2017 | 1,750 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 46 | 27.4 |
| 2018 | 932 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 30 | 19.4 |
| 2019 | 2,283 | 14th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 56 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 1,840 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 44 | 29.6 |
| 2021 | 1,962 | 12th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 47 | 32.6 |
| 2022 | 1,339 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 27 | 38.9 |
| 2023 | 2,395 | 15th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 49 | 37.3 |
| 2024 | 1,968 | 13th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 50 | 39.5 |
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.