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STARBUCK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4500779 · 1 · GARFIELD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:20 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 1897-05-01 — 120th most senior of the 1378 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: BEAVER CREEK STOCKWATER (1885-09-05). Immediately behind: YOUNG AND HESS DITCH (1901-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20197.17288 | 1897-05-01 | 1905-04-20 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 118D |
| 33099.32262 | 1938-05-01 | 1941-07-23 | 2.56 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 71 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 88 AF — 124% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 90 | 12th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 33 | 1.6 |
| 2010 | 57 | 7th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 69 | 0.9 |
| 2011 | 71 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 26 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 81 | 9th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 43 | 1.8 |
| 2014 | 43 | 6th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 13 | 1.8 |
| 2015 | 29 | 4th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 14 | 1.8 |
| 2016 | 30 | 5th lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 21 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 174 | 14th lowest of 15 · 245% of median | 70 | 1.8 |
| 2018 | 4 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 4 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 85 | 10th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 98 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 10 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 7 | 0.8 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 4 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 198 | 15th lowest of 15 · 279% of median | 73 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 173 | 13th lowest of 15 · 244% of median | 58 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 88 | 11th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 35 | 1.8 |
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