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STRAY HORSE DITCH (NEW)
Structure dossier · WDID 4501085 · 1 · CACHE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:10 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 1900-04-15 — 118th 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: REYNOLDS & GILLUM DITCH (1900-04-15). Immediately behind: BEAVER CREEK STOCKWATER (1885-09-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19850.18367 | 1900-04-15 | 1904-05-31 | 0.67 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 23159.19509 | 1903-06-01 | 1913-08-02 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
W2505, W3394.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W2505 | 3 | 1913-08-02 | S |
W3394 | 1 | 1904-05-31 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 24 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 30 AF — 125% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 12 | 4th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 24 | 0.7 |
| 2004 | 1 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 2 | 0.3 |
| 2005 | 113 | 14th lowest of 15 · 471% of median | 58 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 29 | 9th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 13 | 1.2 |
| 2008 | 57 | 13th lowest of 15 · 238% of median | 38 | 1.4 |
| 2009 | 24 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 27 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 7 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 12 | 0.7 |
| 2011 | 131 | 15th lowest of 15 · 546% of median | 47 | 1.8 |
| 2015 | 21 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 16 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 20 | 6th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 11 | 1.1 |
| 2019 | 38 | 11th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 36 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 19 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 17 | 0.8 |
| 2023 | 39 | 12th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 33 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 30 | 10th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 19 | 1.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 564 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 8% of the irrigation seasons in 1990-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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