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STORMY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700906 · 1 · HILL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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 get called out?
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 1891-10-15 — 244th 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: NOVELTY DITCH (1891-06-25). Immediately behind: MANVILLE DITCH (1892-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15263.0 | 1891-10-15 | 1902-04-23 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 123 |
| 30280.18779 | 1901-06-01 | 1939-06-20 | 14.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 701 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 984 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 564 AF — 57% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 871 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 109 | 8.0 |
| 2006 | 1,176 | 12th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 92 | 11.0 |
| 2007 | 805 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 66 | 8.0 |
| 2008 | 837 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 68 | 12.0 |
| 2009 | 740 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 47 | 11.6 |
| 2010 | 991 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 47 | 18.6 |
| 2012 | 834 | 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 56 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 1,012 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 43 | 12.1 |
| 2014 | 1,336 | 13th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 52 | 14.3 |
| 2015 | 1,083 | 11th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 61 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 797 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 36 | 14.0 |
| 2017 | 1,361 | 14th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 75 | 13.1 |
| 2018 | 1,472 | 15th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 61 | 14.0 |
| 2019 | 984 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 58 | 27.8 |
| 2025 | 564 | 1st lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 37 | 7.9 |
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