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JAMES SUTTON DITCH 2
Structure dossier · WDID 4700696 · 1 · EAST BRANCH WILLOW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 1886-05-15 — 78th most senior of the 1262 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: BONA FIDE DITCH (1886-05-10). Immediately behind: WEST BUFFALO DITCH (1886-05-25).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13284.0 | 1886-05-15 | 1892-09-19 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 54(52) |
| 50038.13284 | 1886-05-15 | 1987-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 326 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 145 AF — 44% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 533 | 13th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 57 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 284 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 24 | 6.9 |
| 2009 | 360 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 61 | 5.0 |
| 2010 | 514 | 12th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 58 | 6.5 |
| 2013 | 574 | 14th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 61 | 7.1 |
| 2014 | 508 | 11th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 39 | 8.0 |
| 2015 | 51 | 1st lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 52 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 326 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 36 | 6.7 |
| 2019 | 181 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 39 | 2.4 |
| 2020 | 95 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 61 | 0.8 |
| 2021 | 277 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 57 | 3.6 |
| 2022 | 505 | 10th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 67 | 7.1 |
| 2023 | 948 | 15th lowest of 15 · 291% of median | 46 | 16.9 |
| 2024 | 228 | 5th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 37 | 6.4 |
| 2025 | 145 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 49 | 2.9 |
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