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SHEEP CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300792 · 1 · WEST FORK SHEEP CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:54 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.
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 1916-08-08 — 257th 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: ORNDOFF DIVR POINT NO 2 (1895-06-06). Immediately behind: SHEEP CREEK DITCH ALT PT (1916-08-08).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29533.24326 | 1916-08-08 | 1932-08-18 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 273 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
W2998, CA0929.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W2998 | 1 | 1932-08-18 | S |
CA0929 | 2 | 1932-08-18 | S |
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 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 134 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1991, came in at 48 AF — 36% of that, and 6th lowest of the 14 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 | 26 | 4th lowest of 14 · 20% of median | 27 | 0.5 |
| 1976 | 85 | 7th lowest of 14 · 64% of median | 58 | 0.8 |
| 1977 | 182 | 8th lowest of 14 · 136% of median | 47 | 2.0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 39 | 5th lowest of 14 · 29% of median | 39 | 0.5 |
| 1981 | 182 | 8th lowest of 14 · 136% of median | 47 | 2.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 9% of median | 14 | 0.5 |
| 1985 | 187 | 10th lowest of 14 · 140% of median | 52 | 2.3 |
| 1986 | 578 | 14th lowest of 14 · 433% of median | 184 | 2.4 |
| 1987 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 1988 | 286 | 12th lowest of 14 · 214% of median | 84 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 305 | 13th lowest of 14 · 228% of median | 89 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 202 | 11th lowest of 14 · 151% of median | 75 | 2.0 |
| 1991 | 48 | 6th lowest of 14 · 36% of median | 118 | 0.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 14 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 836 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 25% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-1991 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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