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SUNSHINE IRG DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900690 · 1 · ANTELOPE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:31 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 1900-05-01 — 512th 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: SCHUPP DITCH (1898-05-01). Immediately behind: MCDONOUGH W ANT CR WELL1 (1901-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20710.18383 | 1900-05-01 | 1921-10-25 | 1.62 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 95 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 26 AF — 27% 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 | 283 | 12th lowest of 15 · 298% of median | 89 | 2.5 |
| 2012 | 95 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 38 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 130 | 9th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 86 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 473 | 14th lowest of 15 · 498% of median | 100 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 496 | 15th lowest of 15 · 522% of median | 154 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 266 | 11th lowest of 15 · 280% of median | 127 | 1.9 |
| 2017 | 77 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 116 | 0.4 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1st lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 40 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 311 | 13th lowest of 15 · 327% of median | 115 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 28 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 65 | 0.2 |
| 2021 | 36 | 4th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 79 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 82 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 128 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 151 | 10th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 98 | 1.8 |
| 2024 | 62 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 95 | 0.4 |
| 2025 | 26 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 94 | 0.2 |
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