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SHROPSHIRE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4200544 · 1 · WHITEWATER CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1897-10-01 — 215th most senior of the 726 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: RIO DOMINGUEZ DITCH (1892-02-29). Immediately behind: REDLANDS POWER CANAL (1905-07-31).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
22283.174411897-10-011912-07-22 3.00.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 229 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2022, came in at 27 AF — 12% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2008 229 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 152 2.5
2009 609 15th lowest of 15 · 266% of median 192 3.1
2010 435 13th lowest of 15 · 190% of median 181 2.3
2011 390 12th lowest of 15 · 170% of median 157 3.7
2012 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 2 0.0
2013 184 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median 133 1.5
2014 245 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 177 1.5
2015 319 11th lowest of 15 · 139% of median 206 4.1
2016 315 10th lowest of 15 · 138% of median 119 3.1
2017 36 4th lowest of 15 · 16% of median 76 0.5
2018 205 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 140 2.2
2019 540 14th lowest of 15 · 236% of median 145 4.7
2020 170 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 200 0.8
2021 15 2nd lowest of 15 · 7% of median 34 0.2
2022 27 3rd lowest of 15 · 12% of median 74 0.4

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.