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SANDSTONE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700787 · 1 · GORE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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.
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 1913-06-02 — 325th most senior of the 2162 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: BRAGG NO 1 DITCH (1905-12-31). Immediately behind: PARK DITCH (1914-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25277.23163 | 1913-06-02 | 1919-06-23 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 342 |
| 34468.0 | 1944-05-15 | 1956-02-07 | 2.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 504 |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 116 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1980, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 129 | 7th lowest of 10 · 111% of median | 89 | 0.9 |
| 1952 | 113 | 5th lowest of 10 · 97% of median | 105 | 0.7 |
| 1953 | 110 | 4th lowest of 10 · 94% of median | 96 | 0.7 |
| 1955 | 120 | 6th lowest of 10 · 103% of median | 106 | 0.7 |
| 1956 | 138 | 8th lowest of 10 · 118% of median | 137 | 0.6 |
| 1957 | 426 | 10th lowest of 10 · 366% of median | 114 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 168 | 9th lowest of 10 · 144% of median | 126 | 0.7 |
| 1974 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 0 | 1st lowest of 10 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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