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STRAYER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6800751 · 1 · UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1877-05-01 — 13th most senior of the 1293 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: MILLER BRANCH DITCH (1877-05-01). Immediately behind: TRENCHARD DITCH (1877-05-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9983.0 | 1877-05-01 | 1897-05-15 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 13 |
| 10348.0 | 1878-05-01 | 1897-05-15 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 24 |
| 13635.0 | 1887-05-01 | 1897-05-15 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 108 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,017 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 511 AF — 50% of that, and 3rd 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 | 434 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 51 | 6.6 |
| 2012 | 813 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 202 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 298 | 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 71 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 701 | 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 126 | 3.8 |
| 2015 | 1,017 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 97 | 7.9 |
| 2016 | 1,269 | 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 63 | 14.8 |
| 2017 | 905 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 54 | 13.3 |
| 2018 | 1,531 | 14th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 181 | 10.7 |
| 2019 | 2,724 | 15th lowest of 15 · 268% of median | 184 | 14.7 |
| 2020 | 1,089 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 124 | 8.9 |
| 2021 | 1,171 | 11th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 123 | 9.8 |
| 2022 | 1,157 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 93 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 1,293 | 13th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 145 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 901 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 124 | 9.5 |
| 2025 | 511 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 105 | 6.0 |
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