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NEWMAN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300731 · 1 · SWEETWATER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1903-07-01 — 165th most senior of the 1231 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: R.E.H. DITCH (1903-06-14). Immediately behind: JOLLY HOMESTEAD NO 2 D (1903-09-28).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20427.19539 | 1903-07-01 | 1907-12-09 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 192 |
Recorded use (last 13 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 107 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1994, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 13 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 333 | 13th lowest of 13 · 311% of median | 125 | 1.5 |
| 1976 | 107 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 73 | 0.8 |
| 1977 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 286 | 12th lowest of 13 · 267% of median | 180 | 0.8 |
| 1985 | 213 | 9th lowest of 13 · 199% of median | 105 | 1.4 |
| 1986 | 258 | 11th lowest of 13 · 241% of median | 144 | 1.4 |
| 1987 | 69 | 3rd lowest of 13 · 64% of median | 69 | 0.6 |
| 1988 | 75 | 4th lowest of 13 · 70% of median | 83 | 0.8 |
| 1989 | 78 | 5th lowest of 13 · 73% of median | 84 | 0.8 |
| 1990 | 101 | 6th lowest of 13 · 94% of median | 78 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 107 | 7th lowest of 13 · 100% of median | 86 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 248 | 10th lowest of 13 · 232% of median | 126 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 0 | 1st lowest of 13 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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