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SUTTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3001233 · 1 · PHILLIPS CANYON · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:08 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 1947-04-01 — 535th most senior of the 2277 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: HUTCHINSON RESERVOIR (1947-03-13). Immediately behind: CRAIG DITCH (1949-06-07).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35519.0 | 1947-04-01 | 1966-03-21 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 65-54 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA1751-B, 01CW0107.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1751-B | 1 | 1966-03-21 | S |
01CW0107 | 1 | 1966-03-21 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 27 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1987, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 150 | 15th lowest of 15 · 556% of median | 106 | 1.0 |
| 1973 | 138 | 14th lowest of 15 · 511% of median | 55 | 5.0 |
| 1975 | 59 | 10th lowest of 15 · 218% of median | 69 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 27 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 51 | 0.5 |
| 1977 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 17 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 66 | 12th lowest of 15 · 244% of median | 72 | 0.5 |
| 1979 | 34 | 9th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 35 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 68 | 13th lowest of 15 · 252% of median | 59 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | 4th lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 20 | 0.4 |
| 1982 | 17 | 6th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 67 | 0.2 |
| 1983 | 63 | 11th lowest of 15 · 233% of median | 111 | 0.5 |
| 1984 | 21 | 7th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 67 | 0.4 |
| 1985 | 12 | 5th lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 49 | 0.2 |
| 1986 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 17 | 0.0 |
| 1987 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 8 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-7 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.008).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1087 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 27% of the irrigation seasons in 1968-1987 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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