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SATISFACTION DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4100558 · 1 · UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1882-01-27 — 10th most senior of the 1104 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: HOMESTAKE DITCH (1882-01-05). Immediately behind: SELIG CANAL (1882-01-27).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11715.0 | 1882-01-27 | 1890-06-30 | 0.441 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
| 11730.0 | 1882-02-11 | 1890-06-30 | 20.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 8, 9 |
| 14198.0 | 1888-11-14 | 1890-06-30 | 15.58 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 57, 87 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,699 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,274 AF — 134% of that, and 14th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,788 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 182 | 6.0 |
| 2012 | 1,885 | 12th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 217 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 1,479 | 4th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 185 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 1,780 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 192 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 1,435 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 167 | 7.4 |
| 2016 | 1,593 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 178 | 6.3 |
| 2017 | 1,839 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 171 | 12.0 |
| 2018 | 1,699 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 204 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 1,391 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 161 | 6.6 |
| 2020 | 1,506 | 5th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 136 | 10.3 |
| 2021 | 693 | 1st lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 151 | 5.2 |
| 2022 | 2,115 | 13th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 163 | 11.4 |
| 2023 | 1,549 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 172 | 11.4 |
| 2024 | 2,341 | 15th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 196 | 11.4 |
| 2025 | 2,274 | 14th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 188 | 11.7 |
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