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SCHULER NO 3 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000760 · 1 · ANTELOPE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 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 1913-12-31 — 248th most senior of the 360 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: SCHULER NO 2 DITCH (1913-12-31). Immediately behind: ALBERT RESERVOIR (1913-12-31).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47116.23375 | 1913-12-31 | 1979-12-31 | 7.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 141 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 78 AF — 55% of that, and 4th 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 | 301 | 13th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 104 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 273 | 12th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 57 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 200 | 10th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 54 | 4.1 |
| 2012 | 73 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 40 | 1.8 |
| 2013 | 108 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 67 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 318 | 14th lowest of 15 · 226% of median | 92 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 325 | 15th lowest of 15 · 230% of median | 117 | 3.1 |
| 2016 | 215 | 11th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 72 | 2.1 |
| 2017 | 141 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 83 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 16 | 1st lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 40 | 0.3 |
| 2019 | 185 | 9th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 86 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 61 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 55 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 93 | 5th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 65 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 132 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 81 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 78 | 4th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 54 | 1.0 |
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