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OSAGE DITCH HDG 4

Structure dossier · WDID 5200743 · 1 · SHEEPHORN CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 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 1909-05-01 — 139th 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: OSAGE DITCH HDG 3 (1909-05-01). Immediately behind: OSAGE DITCH HDG 5 (1909-05-01).

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
29437.21671909-05-011946-08-30 0.00.0 CIRR 144

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 161 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 161 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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)
2005 124 7th lowest of 15 · 77% of median 78 0.8
2006 66 5th lowest of 15 · 41% of median 65 0.5
2008 399 12th lowest of 15 · 248% of median 54 3.8
2009 264 10th lowest of 15 · 164% of median 39 3.5
2010 524 15th lowest of 15 · 326% of median 67 4.0
2011 473 14th lowest of 15 · 294% of median 55 4.5
2012 351 11th lowest of 15 · 218% of median 68 3.0
2013 406 13th lowest of 15 · 252% of median 42 5.0
2015 237 9th lowest of 15 · 147% of median 62 2.4
2016 54 4th lowest of 15 · 34% of median 62 0.5
2017 49 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median 55 0.7
2018 27 1st lowest of 15 · 17% of median 48 0.3
2019 66 5th lowest of 15 · 41% of median 73 0.6
2020 52 3rd lowest of 15 · 32% of median 54 0.7
2024 161 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 64 1.6

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.