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SPONSEL AND MYERS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3300529 · 1 · CHERRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:10 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — 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 1892-04-01 — 181st most senior of the 364 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: JOHN SPONSEL 2 3 AND 4 D (1888-05-15). Immediately behind: GEORGE SPONSEL RESERVOIR (1892-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17544.15432 | 1892-04-01 | 1915-06-23 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | #33.5 |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 0 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2009, came in at 52 AF — —% of that, and 9th lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · —% of median | 24 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · —% of median | 23 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · —% of median | 26 | 0.0 |
| 1977 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · —% of median | 21 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · —% of median | 21 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · —% of median | 11 | 0.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · —% of median | 6 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 333 | 13th lowest of 13 · —% of median | 42 | 6.0 |
| 2005 | 120 | 11th lowest of 13 · —% of median | 47 | 2.0 |
| 2006 | 60 | 10th lowest of 13 · —% of median | 11 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 48 | 8th lowest of 13 · —% of median | 19 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 190 | 12th lowest of 13 · —% of median | 30 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 52 | 9th lowest of 13 · —% of median | 14 | 2.0 |
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