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GLENN SHERIFF DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5100671 · 1 · SHERIFF CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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.

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 1888-05-10 — 185th most senior of the 2208 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: SCHOLL DITCH (1887-12-01). Immediately behind: SELAK LARRABEE DITCH (1888-05-15).

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
20676.14011888-05-101911-08-03 1.8750.0 CIRR 173

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 56 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 59 AF — 105% of that, and 9th 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 52 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 45 1.0
2011 59 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 63 0.5
2012 67 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median 94 0.5
2013 43 5th lowest of 15 · 77% of median 47 0.5
2014 79 14th lowest of 15 · 141% of median 61 1.0
2015 56 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 52 1.0
2016 35 2nd lowest of 15 · 62% of median 40 0.5
2017 91 15th lowest of 15 · 162% of median 53 1.0
2018 31 1st lowest of 15 · 55% of median 89 0.3
2019 70 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median 88 1.3
2020 70 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median 76 1.4
2021 35 2nd lowest of 15 · 62% of median 65 0.5
2022 56 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 100 0.4
2023 40 4th lowest of 15 · 71% of median 78 0.3
2024 59 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 85 0.5

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.