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STATON AND CISSNA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700822 · 1 · BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:44 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.
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 1900-08-02 — 214th 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: SUNDELL DITCH NO 3 (1900-05-03). Immediately behind: CASTLE DITCH (1900-08-13).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18476.0 | 1900-08-02 | 1901-03-05 | 1.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 197 |
| 20427.19144 | 1902-06-01 | 1907-06-04 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 240 |
| 30894.26906 | 1923-09-01 | 1936-10-03 | 2.77 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 455U |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
CA0963, 13CW3101, CA0763, CA0446, CA0385.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA0963 | 1 | 1936-10-03 | S |
13CW3101 | 4 | 1936-10-03 | S |
CA0763 | 1 | 1921-06-29 | S |
CA0446 | 1 | 1907-06-04 | S |
CA0385 | 1 | 1901-03-05 | 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 76 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 255 AF — 336% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 98 | 9th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 100 | 0.5 |
| 1996 | 53 | 7th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 54 | 0.5 |
| 1997 | 76 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 78 | 0.5 |
| 1998 | 122 | 10th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 124 | 0.5 |
| 1999 | 949 | 14th lowest of 15 · 1249% of median | 142 | 4.0 |
| 2000 | 958 | 15th lowest of 15 · 1260% of median | 151 | 3.2 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 506 | 13th lowest of 15 · 666% of median | 179 | 2.7 |
| 2022 | 359 | 12th lowest of 15 · 472% of median | 304 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 255 | 11th lowest of 15 · 336% of median | 304 | 1.9 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4394 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 28% of the irrigation seasons in 1951-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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