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OWEN & HALL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1000577 · 1 · FOUNTAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:06 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 1862-12-31 — 37th most senior of the 2864 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: MONUMENT CREEK PIPELINE (1862-04-01). Immediately behind: LAUGHLIN DITCH (1862-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4748.0 | 1862-12-31 | 1882-03-06 | 15.325 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECDOMAUG | 8 |
| 44194.15024 | 1891-02-18 | 1971-12-31 | 31.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOM |
Legal record & documents
11 decreed actions on record across
7 court cases:
16CW3056, W4376, W0115, W0056, CA53132, CA0751, 03CW0048.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
16CW3056 | 3 | 2016-12-31 | S |
W4376 | 2 | 1977-12-21 | S |
W0115 | 1 | 1971-12-31 | S |
W0056 | 2 | 1882-03-06 | O |
CA53132 | 1 | 1882-03-06 | O |
CA0751 | 1 | 1882-03-06 | O |
03CW0048 | 1 | 1882-03-06 | O |
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 5,230 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 4,703 AF — 90% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5,747 | 13th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 219 | 15.5 |
| 2012 | 6,057 | 14th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 278 | 14.7 |
| 2013 | 6,083 | 15th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 304 | 15.3 |
| 2014 | 4,737 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 214 | 14.5 |
| 2015 | 3,151 | 1st lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 214 | 15.2 |
| 2016 | 5,230 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 214 | 15.4 |
| 2017 | 4,107 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 275 | 14.9 |
| 2018 | 4,741 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 365 | 15.3 |
| 2019 | 5,505 | 10th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 304 | 15.5 |
| 2020 | 5,113 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 275 | 15.3 |
| 2021 | 5,387 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 365 | 15.3 |
| 2022 | 5,713 | 12th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 365 | 15.9 |
| 2023 | 4,158 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 365 | 16.3 |
| 2024 | 5,545 | 11th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 366 | 17.9 |
| 2025 | 4,703 | 4th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 304 | 16.2 |
Call-derived yield: senior right divertible 71.0% of a median season / 24.8% dry-year.
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 A (9/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 21454 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 97% of the irrigation seasons in 1922-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.