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SHIPPEE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800989 · 1 · SOPRIS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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 1882-06-01 — 51st 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: LANDIS NO 2 DITCH (1882-06-01). Immediately behind: LEMOND DITCH (1882-06-07).
Decreed rights (9)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11840.0 | 1882-06-01 | 1889-05-11 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 34 |
| 12232.0 | 1883-06-28 | 1889-05-11 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 70 |
| 13911.0 | 1888-02-01 | 1889-05-11 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 184 |
| 24928.12232 | 1883-06-28 | 1918-05-15 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 70 |
| 24928.19868 | 1904-05-25 | 1918-05-15 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 221A-2 |
| 24928.24601 | 1917-05-10 | 1918-05-15 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 233 |
| 30941.26418 | 1922-05-01 | 1936-08-25 | 7.36 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 414I |
| 36396.35519 | 1947-04-01 | 1952-10-24 | 1.35 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 569 |
| 53691.51286 | 1990-06-01 | 1997-12-31 | 0.05 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 635 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 693 AF — 109% of that, and 12th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 671 | 11th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 107 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 490 | 1st lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 133 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 635 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 151 | 3.3 |
| 2013 | 531 | 4th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 113 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 530 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 100 | 3.6 |
| 2015 | 738 | 14th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 136 | 4.4 |
| 2016 | 758 | 15th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 137 | 4.6 |
| 2017 | 658 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 115 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 527 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 150 | 3.6 |
| 2019 | 657 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 127 | 3.8 |
| 2020 | 558 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 155 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 552 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 161 | 3.0 |
| 2022 | 697 | 13th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 148 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 567 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 131 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 693 | 12th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 146 | 4.3 |
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