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SUTTON NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300826 · 1 · SUTTON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:30 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 1885-07-11 — 27th 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: BAXTER DITCH (1885-06-29). Immediately behind: ED HULL NO 1 DITCH (1885-08-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12976.0 | 1885-07-11 | 1890-11-20 | 2.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 27 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 135 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 267 AF — 198% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 166 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 69 | 1.2 |
| 2000 | 79 | 6th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 41 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 197 | 11th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 65 | 2.2 |
| 2005 | 19 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 20 | 0.5 |
| 2008 | 77 | 5th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 40 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 24 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 23 | 0.6 |
| 2010 | 135 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 69 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 150 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 67 | 1.6 |
| 2016 | 218 | 12th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 56 | 2.4 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1st lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 15 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 432 | 15th lowest of 15 · 320% of median | 83 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 361 | 14th lowest of 15 · 267% of median | 52 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 104 | 7th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 52 | 2.1 |
| 2022 | 76 | 4th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 47 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 267 | 13th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 69 | 2.8 |
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