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GUTZLER DITCH NO 3

Structure dossier · WDID 5200561 · 1 · SHEEPHORN CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:34 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 1910-05-01 — 145th 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: MATHER DITCH HDG 4 (1909-06-17). Immediately behind: GUTZLER DITCH NO 3 HDG 2 (1910-05-01).

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
29437.220351910-05-011946-08-30 2.850.0 CIRR 148

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 252 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 40 AF — 16% of that, and 3rd 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)
2003 195 7th lowest of 15 · 77% of median 37 2.7
2004 341 12th lowest of 15 · 135% of median 64 2.7
2005 417 13th lowest of 15 · 166% of median 78 2.7
2006 463 14th lowest of 15 · 184% of median 95 2.7
2007 260 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median 49 2.7
2008 303 10th lowest of 15 · 120% of median 52 3.0
2009 180 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median 39 2.4
2010 189 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median 50 1.9
2011 654 15th lowest of 15 · 260% of median 54 6.2
2012 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 10 0.0
2013 333 11th lowest of 15 · 132% of median 57 3.0
2015 252 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 76 2.0
2017 76 4th lowest of 15 · 30% of median 55 0.8
2018 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2019 40 3rd lowest of 15 · 16% of median 48 0.5

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