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STEELE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200894 · 1 · BULL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:35 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1897-06-01 — 138th most senior of the 2166 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: PIONEER EXTENSION DITCH (1897-04-01). Immediately behind: STEELE DITCH ALT PT (1897-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749.17319 | 1897-06-01 | 1905-10-14 | 0.45 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 40013.31516 | 1936-04-15 | 1972-04-13 | 0.55 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 989 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 306 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 363 AF — 119% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 167 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 169 | 0.5 |
| 2009 | 167 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 170 | 0.5 |
| 2010 | 212 | 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 110 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 20 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 11 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 282 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 143 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 376 | 13th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 183 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 387 | 14th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 196 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 320 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 158 | 2.3 |
| 2018 | 369 | 12th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 182 | 1.7 |
| 2019 | 204 | 4th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 83 | 1.7 |
| 2020 | 270 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 89 | 1.9 |
| 2021 | 325 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 210 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 403 | 15th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 202 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 306 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 155 | 1.9 |
| 2024 | 363 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 183 | 1.8 |
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