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SQUIER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900665 · 1 · RIFLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:14 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 1883-05-23 — 41st most senior of the 1758 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: DOW WELL W W 1-3 (1883-05-17). Immediately behind: CORYELL DITCH (1883-06-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12196.0 | 1883-05-23 | 1889-05-11 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 10 |
| 13618.0 | 1887-04-14 | 1889-05-11 | 0.7 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 104 |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 53 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1978, came in at 93 AF — 176% of that, and 11th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 26 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 49% of median | 10 | 2.0 |
| 1966 | 39 | 5th lowest of 12 · 74% of median | 32 | 1.0 |
| 1967 | 67 | 7th lowest of 12 · 126% of median | 55 | 1.5 |
| 1968 | 76 | 8th lowest of 12 · 143% of median | 60 | 1.5 |
| 1969 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 68% of median | 70 | 1.5 |
| 1970 | 36 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 68% of median | 47 | 1.5 |
| 1971 | 39 | 5th lowest of 12 · 74% of median | 153 | 1.5 |
| 1972 | 20 | 1st lowest of 12 · 38% of median | 46 | 1.0 |
| 1973 | 77 | 9th lowest of 12 · 145% of median | 62 | 1.0 |
| 1974 | 80 | 10th lowest of 12 · 151% of median | 98 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 107 | 12th lowest of 12 · 202% of median | 110 | 0.6 |
| 1978 | 93 | 11th lowest of 12 · 176% of median | 37 | 1.4 |
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