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SHEHI DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800988 · 1 · TAYLOR CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:48 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 1888-02-10 — 359th most senior of the 4788 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: DAVISON DITCH (1887-06-01). Immediately behind: EIEIO RANCH PUMP (1890-07-01).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22603.1392 | 1888-02-10 | 1911-11-21 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 184A |
| 22603.14762 | 1890-06-01 | 1911-11-21 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 209CCA |
| 22603.16253 | 1894-07-01 | 1911-11-21 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 210AAA-1 |
| 30941.16618 | 1895-07-01 | 1936-08-25 | 5.85 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 321 |
Legal record & documents
10 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
W3932, CA5789, CA1537, 04CW0156, 02CW0351.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W3932 | 3 | 1936-08-25 | S |
CA5789 | 2 | 1911-11-21 | S |
CA1537 | 1 | 1911-11-21 | S |
04CW0156 | 2 | 1911-11-21 | S |
02CW0351 | 2 | 1911-11-21 | 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 226 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2017, came in at 6 AF — 3% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 75 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 77 | 0.5 |
| 1979 | 174 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 175 | 0.5 |
| 1980 | 337 | 10th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 170 | 1.0 |
| 1981 | 103 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 54 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 103 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 53 | 1.0 |
| 1983 | 165 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 84 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 226 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 115 | 1.0 |
| 1985 | 287 | 9th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 175 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 198 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 140 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 448 | 11th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 136 | 3.0 |
| 1995 | 1,154 | 13th lowest of 15 · 511% of median | 154 | 8.0 |
| 1997 | 1,128 | 12th lowest of 15 · 499% of median | 154 | 8.0 |
| 1998 | 1,184 | 14th lowest of 15 · 524% of median | 153 | 8.0 |
| 1999 | 1,411 | 15th lowest of 15 · 624% of median | 146 | 7.8 |
| 2017 | 6 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 99 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+47 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.012).
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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2744 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 21% of the irrigation seasons in 1955-2017 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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