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STRATTON AND CO DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700823 · 1 · GYPSUM CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:31 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 1881-07-01 — 3rd 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: NORGAARD DITCH (1881-07-01). Immediately behind: EYE LAKE SUPPLY DITCH (1881-07-01).
Decreed rights (14)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11505.0 | 1881-07-01 | 1889-12-17 | 9.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFIRDOMAUG | 1 |
| 11969.0 | 1882-10-08 | 1889-12-17 | 2.65 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 7 |
| 12539.0 | 1884-04-30 | 1889-12-17 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 19 |
| 12875.0 | 1885-04-01 | 1889-12-17 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 30 |
| 13338.0 | 1886-07-08 | 1889-12-17 | 0.65 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 41 |
| 13345.0 | 1886-07-15 | 1889-12-17 | 1.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 42 |
| 13392.0 | 1886-08-31 | 1889-12-17 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 44 |
| 14458.0 | 1889-08-01 | 1889-12-17 | 1.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 84 |
| 18036.0 | 1899-05-19 | 1901-03-05 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 190 |
| 20427.18418 | 1900-06-05 | 1907-06-04 | 3.55 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 223 |
| 20427.18419 | 1900-06-06 | 1907-06-04 | 1.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 224 |
| 20427.19181 | 1902-07-08 | 1907-06-04 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 241 |
| 23802.2374 | 1914-12-31 | 1915-06-07 | 25.65 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 190EX, 19E |
| 55517.54056 | 1997-12-31 | 2002-12-31 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRCOMRECFISFIRAUGOTHWLD |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 5,655 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 7,157 AF — 127% of that, and 9th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8,267 | 15th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | — | 175 | 35.7 |
| 2011 | 7,328 | 12th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | — | 155 | 33.1 |
| 2012 | 4,120 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 73% of median | — | 186 | 12.8 |
| 2013 | 5,055 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | — | 178 | 34.1 |
| 2014 | 7,227 | 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | — | 204 | 31.0 |
| 2015 | 7,841 | 13th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 577 | 231 | 31.3 |
| 2016 | 7,255 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 576 | 202 | 40.7 |
| 2017 | 3,962 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 576 | 188 | 13.5 |
| 2018 | 3,901 | 1st lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 576 | 184 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 4,802 | 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 576 | 206 | 20.3 |
| 2020 | 4,812 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 576 | 184 | 31.9 |
| 2021 | 4,605 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 576 | 187 | 20.2 |
| 2022 | 5,655 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 576 | 184 | 28.3 |
| 2023 | 8,081 | 14th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 1,284 | 177 | 25.3 |
| 2024 | 7,157 | 9th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 1,409 | 194 | 27.6 |
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