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SORRENSON IRRIGATING D
Structure dossier · WDID 2800690 · 1 · QUARTZ CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 1888-05-15 — 465th most senior of the 1505 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: FUNK DITCH NO 1 (1888-05-15). Immediately behind: VADER WELL (1888-05-15).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24074.14015 | 1888-05-15 | 1918-09-03 | 4.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 152 |
| 24074.23889 | 1915-05-29 | 1918-09-03 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 182 |
| 28311.1438 | 1889-05-15 | 1943-04-19 | 18.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 259 |
| 28311.23889 | 1915-05-29 | 1943-04-19 | 6.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 304 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,774 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,774 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,789 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 92 | 15.6 |
| 2012 | 875 | 1st lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 92 | 13.9 |
| 2013 | 1,346 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 94 | 8.8 |
| 2014 | 1,429 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 51 | 16.4 |
| 2015 | 3,759 | 15th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | 155 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 1,895 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 73 | 15.1 |
| 2017 | 2,483 | 13th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 108 | 25.0 |
| 2018 | 2,184 | 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 132 | 16.8 |
| 2019 | 1,679 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 76 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 1,956 | 11th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 121 | 13.5 |
| 2021 | 1,233 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 123 | 10.2 |
| 2022 | 1,499 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 64 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 3,296 | 14th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 130 | 16.0 |
| 2024 | 1,619 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 80 | 13.1 |
| 2025 | 1,774 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 90 | 13.9 |
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