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MORRISON SEEP DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0200932 · DITCH · BEEBE DRAW · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:06 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Fully called out — call at LOWER LATHAM DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1877-11-14).
● Fully called out — call at WESTERN MUTUAL DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1871-08-09).
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 1897-05-21 — 6048th most senior of the 21881 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: 0800915 (1895-12-31). Immediately behind: 8001559 (1905-07-15).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44194.17308 | 1897-05-21 | 1971-12-31 | 50.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
W0646.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0646 | 1 | 1971-12-31 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 2,584 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 2,503 AF — 97% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 4,951 | 15th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 209 | 12.0 |
| 2011 | 363 | 1st lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 61 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 3,209 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 366 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 3,620 | 12th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 365 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 4,306 | 13th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 333 | 8.0 |
| 2015 | 527 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 51 | 141.5 |
| 2016 | 546 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 21% of median | 64 | 13.4 |
| 2017 | 2,584 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 226 | 24.2 |
| 2018 | 1,849 | 6th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 190 | 73.0 |
| 2019 | 4,386 | 14th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 330 | 26.4 |
| 2020 | 1,464 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 173 | 36.2 |
| 2021 | 3,541 | 11th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 211 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 2,621 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 273 | 9.0 |
| 2023 | 1,658 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 161 | 19.8 |
| 2024 | 2,503 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 214 | 8.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4034 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 66% of the irrigation seasons in 1996-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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