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SUNSET DITCH (MESA CR)
Structure dossier · WDID 7200903 · 1 · MESA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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.
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 1888-06-27 — 71st 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: ARKANSAS DITCH (1888-06-27). Immediately behind: SILVER GAUGE DITCH (1888-08-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14058.0 | 1888-06-27 | 1890-02-07 | 2.65 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 56 |
| 22995.19083 | 1902-04-01 | 1916-06-01 | 1.89 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 836 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 911 AF — 109% of that, and 10th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 715 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 178 | 4.6 |
| 2011 | 967 | 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 121 | 7.3 |
| 2012 | 483 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 179 | 3.5 |
| 2013 | 576 | 6th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 146 | 4.9 |
| 2014 | 836 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 186 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 951 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 185 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 979 | 14th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 242 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 861 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 161 | 5.1 |
| 2018 | 376 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 157 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 1,353 | 15th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 198 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 542 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 192 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 204 | 1st lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 141 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 557 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 146 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 973 | 13th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 256 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 911 | 10th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 304 | 4.5 |
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