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ST LOUIS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100910 · 1 · SAINT LOUIS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:05 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 1900-05-04 — 129th 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: SPRING BRANCH NO 2 DITCH (1898-10-15). Immediately behind: BYERS NO 6 DITCH (1900-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18386.0 | 1900-05-04 | 1906-08-11 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 112 |
| 20676.19875 | 1904-06-01 | 1911-08-03 | 6.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 231 |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
W2280, CA0183, CA0112.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W2280 | 1 | 1911-08-03 | S |
CA0183 | 1 | 1911-08-03 | S |
CA0112 | 4 | 1906-08-11 | O |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 321 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1993, came in at 331 AF — 103% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 521 | 13th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 72 | 3.7 |
| 1980 | 721 | 15th lowest of 15 · 225% of median | 88 | 5.4 |
| 1981 | 207 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 62 | 2.0 |
| 1982 | 651 | 14th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 68 | 5.4 |
| 1983 | 484 | 12th lowest of 15 · 151% of median | 62 | 4.0 |
| 1984 | 321 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 55 | 3.0 |
| 1985 | 399 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 39 | 6.0 |
| 1986 | 411 | 11th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 40 | 6.0 |
| 1987 | 124 | 4th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 78 | 1.5 |
| 1988 | 236 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 84 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 107 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 46 | 1.3 |
| 1990 | 36 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 74 | 0.2 |
| 1991 | 265 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 144 | 1.5 |
| 1992 | 30 | 1st lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 16 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 331 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 167 | 1.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-36 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.008).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1374 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 35% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-1993 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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