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SCHAFFNIT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800853 · 1 · BUTCHERKNIFE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:20 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 1895-09-01 — 228th most senior of the 3097 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: PRIEST DITCH (1891-08-13). Immediately behind: MILL CREEK DITCH (1895-10-17).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18529.1668 | 1895-09-01 | 1901-09-16 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 133 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 18 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2020, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 14 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 15 | 0.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | 4th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 16 | 0.5 |
| 1973 | 19 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 20 | 0.5 |
| 1974 | 23 | 10th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 25 | 0.5 |
| 1975 | 31 | 11th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 53 | 0.5 |
| 1978 | 18 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 14 | 0.8 |
| 1979 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 1983 | 11 | 4th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 9 | 0.7 |
| 1985 | 14 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 8 | 1.0 |
| 1986 | 39 | 12th lowest of 15 · 217% of median | 24 | 1.5 |
| 1987 | 70 | 15th lowest of 15 · 389% of median | 46 | 1.0 |
| 1988 | 48 | 13th lowest of 15 · 267% of median | 22 | 1.4 |
| 1989 | 50 | 14th lowest of 15 · 278% of median | 30 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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