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DAVE MILLER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0500513 · 1 · NORTH SAINT VRAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1874-03-30 — 137th most senior of the 1289 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: LOWER BALDWIN DITCH (1873-04-01). Immediately behind: SOSEY DITCH (1874-03-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11841.08855 | 1874-03-30 | 1907-03-13 | 170.62 | 0.0 | A | IRR | |
| 11841.08855 | 1874-03-30 | 1907-03-13 | 1.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 123 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 28 AF — 23% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 182 | 10th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 67 | 2.0 |
| 1979 | 117 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 42 | 2.0 |
| 1980 | 95 | 5th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 20 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 113 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 23 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 244 | 12th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 63 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 361 | 14th lowest of 15 · 294% of median | 86 | 3.0 |
| 1984 | 422 | 15th lowest of 15 · 343% of median | 111 | 3.0 |
| 1985 | 270 | 13th lowest of 15 · 220% of median | 70 | 3.0 |
| 1986 | 123 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 34 | 2.0 |
| 1987 | 206 | 11th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 55 | 2.0 |
| 1988 | 161 | 9th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 49 | 2.0 |
| 1992 | 17 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 7 | 1.4 |
| 2008 | 24 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 10 | 1.4 |
| 2022 | 10 | 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 6 | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 28 | 4th lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 62 | 0.2 |
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