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SHOEMAKER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000903 · 1 · GUNNISON RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:49 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 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 1910-07-11 — 1360th most senior of the 4661 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: FIRE MOUNTAIN WASTE D (1910-06-09). Immediately behind: CAN DITCH (1912-06-20).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24894.22106 | 1910-07-11 | 1920-08-28 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | B37 |
| 48577.39506 | 1958-03-01 | 1983-12-31 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 54722.0 | 1999-10-28 | 1999-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 648 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 809 AF — 125% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 284 | 6th lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 206 | 1.5 |
| 2005 | 648 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 195 | 3.0 |
| 2006 | 901 | 12th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 165 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 1,061 | 14th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 208 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 1,332 | 15th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 187 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 775 | 9th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 185 | 2.5 |
| 2010 | 797 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 201 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 1,039 | 13th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 202 | 3.5 |
| 2012 | 368 | 7th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 169 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 199 | 5th lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 157 | 1.3 |
| 2014 | 16 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 2% of median | 29 | 1.2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 95 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 25 | 3.2 |
| 2017 | 123 | 4th lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 36 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 809 | 11th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 206 | 2.0 |
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