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STUART DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4800546 · 1 · STUART CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 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 1896-04-15 — 45th most senior of the 143 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: UPPER HILLS DITCH (1887-05-01). Immediately behind: JOHNSON RES (1897-06-07).

Decreed rights (1)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
20737.169071896-04-151914-02-20 7.20.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 245 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 67 AF — 27% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2010 273 13th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 50 4.2
2011 288 15th lowest of 15 · 118% of median 60 4.2
2012 258 12th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 48 4.2
2013 245 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 45 4.2
2014 235 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median 39 4.2
2015 254 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 47 4.2
2016 257 11th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 48 4.2
2017 252 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 44 4.0
2018 71 2nd lowest of 15 · 29% of median 28 2.7
2019 217 4th lowest of 15 · 89% of median 49 4.0
2020 181 3rd lowest of 15 · 74% of median 52 4.0
2021 228 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 35 9.7
2022 221 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median 49 3.8
2023 277 14th lowest of 15 · 113% of median 53 5.3
2024 67 1st lowest of 15 · 27% of median 15 4.6

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.