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STRANG NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3801032 · 1 · MESA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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 1883-04-05 — 92nd 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: WALTER DITCH (1883-04-02). Immediately behind: VAN CLEVE-FISHER FDR D (1883-04-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12148.0 | 1883-04-05 | 1889-05-11 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 56 |
Recorded use (last 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 54 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2007, came in at 33 AF — 61% of that, and 6th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 366 | 12th lowest of 14 · 678% of median | 75 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 471 | 13th lowest of 14 · 872% of median | 89 | 2.7 |
| 1963 | 11 | 5th lowest of 14 · 20% of median | 25 | 0.2 |
| 1968 | 165 | 11th lowest of 14 · 306% of median | 43 | 2.0 |
| 1978 | 69 | 9th lowest of 14 · 128% of median | 175 | 0.2 |
| 1979 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 2% of median | 304 | 0.0 |
| 1983 | 2,124 | 14th lowest of 14 · 3933% of median | 153 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 71 | 10th lowest of 14 · 132% of median | 120 | 0.3 |
| 1986 | 60 | 8th lowest of 14 · 111% of median | 153 | 0.2 |
| 1987 | 48 | 7th lowest of 14 · 89% of median | 123 | 0.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | 4th lowest of 14 · 15% of median | 7 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 2 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 4% of median | 4 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 33 | 6th lowest of 14 · 61% of median | 31 | 0.6 |
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