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ERNEST SUTTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5200545 · 1 · SHEEPHORN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1902-06-15 — 74th most senior of the 562 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: WEST COTTONWOOD DITCH (1902-06-01). Immediately behind: ALAMO DITCH (1903-10-04).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19790.19158 | 1902-06-15 | 1907-01-26 | 2.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 77 |
| 20691.0 | 1906-08-26 | 1907-01-26 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 46386.44712 | 1972-06-01 | 1977-12-31 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 87 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 87 AF — 100% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1995 | 209 | 14th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 63 | 2.3 |
| 1996 | 168 | 13th lowest of 15 · 193% of median | 51 | 2.1 |
| 2002 | 93 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 73 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 38 | 1.0 |
| 2004 | 60 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 31 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 76 | 4th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 42 | 0.9 |
| 2006 | 90 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 65 | 0.7 |
| 2007 | 76 | 4th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 37 | 1.1 |
| 2008 | 83 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 36 | 1.2 |
| 2009 | 222 | 15th lowest of 15 · 255% of median | 57 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 87 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 43 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 167 | 12th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 44 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 140 | 11th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 55 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 87 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 40 | 1.3 |
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