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SCHUTTE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300923 · 1 · PICEANCE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1885-04-01 — 24th most senior of the 3293 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: NIBLOCK DITCH (1885-03-08). Immediately behind: SOUTH SIDE HIGHLINE D (1885-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12875.0 | 1885-04-01 | 1889-05-10 | 0.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 19 |
| 32172.24592 | 1917-05-01 | 1942-05-26 | 2.95 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 467B |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 256 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 227 AF — 89% of that, and 6th 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 | 885 | 15th lowest of 15 · 346% of median | 117 | 6.0 |
| 2012 | 285 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 144 | 1.9 |
| 2013 | 402 | 12th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 176 | 8.0 |
| 2014 | 256 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 35 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 482 | 13th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 197 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 214 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 30 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 114 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 71 | 0.8 |
| 2018 | 128 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 197 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 340 | 11th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 68 | 7.5 |
| 2020 | 238 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 162 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 106 | 1st lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 196 | 0.7 |
| 2022 | 693 | 14th lowest of 15 · 271% of median | 203 | 2.7 |
| 2023 | 187 | 4th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 93 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 299 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 194 | 1.2 |
| 2025 | 227 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 129 | 1.2 |
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