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STRAND DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 5900684 · 1 · BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:39 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.
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 1899-06-08 — 218th most senior of the 2360 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: MESA DITCH (1899-06-04). Immediately behind: MURDIE MESA IRG D (1899-07-17).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18056.0 | 1899-06-08 | 1906-09-14 | 3.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 129 |
| 30667.18056 | 1899-06-08 | 1941-04-29 | 9.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 375 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 808 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 428 AF — 53% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 460 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 94 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 1,020 | 12th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 82 | 10.3 |
| 2013 | 447 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 66 | 7.1 |
| 2014 | 1,000 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 69 | 7.8 |
| 2015 | 1,195 | 13th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 77 | 10.0 |
| 2016 | 1,439 | 14th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 122 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 672 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 63 | 9.2 |
| 2018 | 408 | 1st lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 67 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 591 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 104 | 5.7 |
| 2020 | 827 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 103 | 5.6 |
| 2021 | 808 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 80 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 498 | 5th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 85 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 1,659 | 15th lowest of 15 · 205% of median | 130 | 11.9 |
| 2024 | 1,016 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 77 | 8.5 |
| 2025 | 428 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 78 | 5.1 |
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