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SWEEDE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4300961 · 1 · SOUTH FORK WHITE RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:50 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.

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 1897-05-15 — 744th 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: J W BAINBRICK D NO 2 (1893-07-01). Immediately behind: PELTIER CREEK DITCH (1898-04-01).

Decreed rights (4)

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
25767.173021897-05-151920-08-16 5.40.0 CIRR 241
29090.283341927-07-301929-10-16 1.650.0 CDOM 16DOM
32172.173071897-05-201942-05-26 8.690.0 CIRR 376
35679.173021897-05-151958-11-26 5.00.0 CIRRDOMSTK 510

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,977 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,615 AF — 132% of that, and 10th 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 1,847 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 107 16.5
2009 3,903 15th lowest of 15 · 197% of median 155 18.6
2010 2,939 13th lowest of 15 · 149% of median 152 21.2
2011 2,918 12th lowest of 15 · 148% of median 142 20.8
2012 2,731 11th lowest of 15 · 138% of median 141 14.5
2013 2,414 9th lowest of 15 · 122% of median 83 17.5
2014 2,943 14th lowest of 15 · 149% of median 117 13.5
2016 1,362 6th lowest of 15 · 69% of median 62 11.9
2017 965 5th lowest of 15 · 49% of median 68 12.1
2018 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2019 1,977 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 92 14.7
2020 904 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median 44 10.6
2023 285 3rd lowest of 15 · 14% of median 70 3.5
2024 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2025 2,615 10th lowest of 15 · 132% of median 90 19.7

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