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MITCHELL DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 1100749 · 1 · WILLOW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:57 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 1881-05-31 — 172nd most senior of the 1489 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: HALFMOON DIVERSION (1881-05-07). Immediately behind: TROUT CLUB WELL (1881-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11474.0 | 1881-05-31 | 1890-06-19 | 1.3 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDFIRDOM | 90 |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA1127, 99CW0157, 09CW0073.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1127 | 1 | 1890-06-19 | O |
99CW0157 | 2 | 1890-06-19 | O |
09CW0073 | 2 | 1890-06-19 | 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 156 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 143 AF — 92% of that, and 7th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 15 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 357 | 15th lowest of 15 · 229% of median | 357 | 184 | 1.3 |
| 2014 | 199 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 199 | 123 | 1.3 |
| 2015 | 196 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 196 | 123 | 1.3 |
| 2016 | 176 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 176 | 123 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 167 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 167 | 123 | 1.3 |
| 2018 | 156 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 156 | 127 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 199 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 199 | 123 | 1.3 |
| 2020 | 126 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 126 | 92 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 79 | 5th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 79 | 172 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 253 | 14th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 253 | 365 | 2.3 |
| 2023 | 143 | 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 143 | 243 | 1.3 |
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 (7/10 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 | 5064 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 21% of the irrigation seasons in 1912-2023 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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