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SULPHUR GULCH DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 7100608 · 1 · SULPHUR CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — 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 1887-06-01 — 41st most senior of the 279 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: JESSE LOVE DITCH (1887-06-01). Immediately behind: WEST EDER DITCH (1887-06-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
15372.136661887-06-011937-03-08 0.650.0 CIRR 37-12

Recorded use (last 14 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 56 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2007, came in at 73 AF — 132% of that, and 10th lowest of the 14 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1986 31 5th lowest of 14 · 56% of median 23 0.7
1987 29 4th lowest of 14 · 52% of median 26 0.7
1988 0 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median 1 0.0
1989 0 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median 3 0.0
1996 60 8th lowest of 14 · 108% of median 74 0.8
1997 81 11th lowest of 14 · 146% of median 73 0.6
1998 44 6th lowest of 14 · 79% of median 72 0.4
1999 92 13th lowest of 14 · 166% of median 61 1.0
2000 86 12th lowest of 14 · 155% of median 90 0.6
2001 97 14th lowest of 14 · 175% of median 79 0.8
2002 51 7th lowest of 14 · 92% of median 45 0.7
2003 7 3rd lowest of 14 · 13% of median 18 0.2
2006 64 9th lowest of 14 · 115% of median 65 0.6
2007 73 10th lowest of 14 · 132% of median 58 0.6

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