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SAMMONS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6200733 · 1 · CEBOLLA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 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.
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 1890-06-10 — 59th most senior of the 1980 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: WEST DITCH (1890-05-15). Immediately behind: CIMARRON FEEDER GARNET DITCH (1890-08-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14771.0 | 1890-06-10 | 1904-03-28 | 0.79 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 63 |
| 27585.14771 | 1890-06-10 | 1941-04-21 | 2.21 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 206 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 327 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1995, came in at 399 AF — 122% of that, and 12th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 369 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 81 | 2.5 |
| 1982 | 202 | 1st lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 45 | 4.0 |
| 1983 | 506 | 15th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 61 | 5.0 |
| 1984 | 357 | 9th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 61 | 3.0 |
| 1985 | 244 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 43 | 3.0 |
| 1986 | 220 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 69 | 2.0 |
| 1987 | 286 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 50 | 3.0 |
| 1988 | 434 | 14th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 74 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 279 | 6th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 69 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 382 | 11th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 69 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 327 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 56 | 3.0 |
| 1992 | 405 | 13th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 69 | 3.0 |
| 1993 | 214 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 37 | 3.0 |
| 1994 | 270 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 63 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 399 | 12th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 62 | 4.0 |
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