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WEST STEWART RES DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4301139 · 1 · WEST FORK STEWART GULCH · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:48 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 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 1895-03-01 — 983rd 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: PENNELL INTAKE OF CHASE AND COLTHORP DIT (1893-03-01). Immediately behind: WEST STEWART GULCH RES (1895-03-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32172.16496 | 1895-03-01 | 1942-05-26 | 0.78 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 367 |
| 32172.24592 | 1917-05-01 | 1942-05-26 | 1.82 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 467Y |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 66 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 335 AF — 508% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 66 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 57 | 2.0 |
| 2000 | 49 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 55 | 0.5 |
| 2001 | 110 | 11th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 104 | 1.5 |
| 2002 | 78 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 35 | 1.8 |
| 2003 | 71 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 47 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 234 | 12th lowest of 15 · 354% of median | 60 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | 27 | 4th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 27 | 0.6 |
| 2010 | 239 | 13th lowest of 15 · 362% of median | 65 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 27 | 4th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 62 | 0.2 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 56 | 7th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 23 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 244 | 14th lowest of 15 · 370% of median | 36 | 5.1 |
| 2025 | 335 | 15th lowest of 15 · 508% of median | 37 | 5.4 |
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