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STURGILL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2900729 · 1 · COAL 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 (a1c9146) — 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 1900-06-01 — 139th most senior of the 853 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: J M ROSS AND STURGILL D (1900-05-10). Immediately behind: WUNDERLICH PUMP SITE (1901-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19012.18414 | 1900-06-01 | 1912-11-13 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #140 |
| 41016.37529 | 1952-10-01 | 1968-12-19 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 68-130 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 221 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 270 AF — 122% of that, and 10th 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 | 295 | 12th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 133 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 143 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 78 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 336 | 14th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 97 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 162 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 63 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 74 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 57 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 51 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 35 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 84 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 63 | 2.4 |
| 2018 | 119 | 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 53 | 2.8 |
| 2019 | 255 | 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 122 | 3.2 |
| 2020 | 221 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 61 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 272 | 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 77 | 4.0 |
| 2022 | 325 | 13th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 112 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 383 | 15th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 110 | 4.6 |
| 2024 | 211 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 53 | 4.4 |
| 2025 | 270 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 164 | 1.9 |
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