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SARAH M DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700788 · 1 · SQUAW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 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 1892-05-01 — 119th 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: BURNISON NO 2 DITCH (1892-01-14). Immediately behind: CRAWFORD DITCH (1892-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15462.0 | 1892-05-01 | 1894-06-29 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 115 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 120 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2006, 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 120 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 153 | 1.0 |
| 1989 | 296 | 10th lowest of 15 · 247% of median | 189 | 2.0 |
| 1990 | 107 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 162 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1992 | 491 | 13th lowest of 15 · 409% of median | 188 | 2.1 |
| 1993 | 612 | 15th lowest of 15 · 510% of median | 158 | 2.0 |
| 1994 | 381 | 11th lowest of 15 · 318% of median | 164 | 1.4 |
| 1995 | 271 | 9th lowest of 15 · 226% of median | 129 | 1.2 |
| 1996 | 462 | 12th lowest of 15 · 385% of median | 182 | 1.6 |
| 1997 | 537 | 14th lowest of 15 · 448% of median | 164 | 2.0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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