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JOHN MEYER DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 1300924 · 1 · ANTELOPE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:32 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1872-06-10 — 81st most senior of the 1017 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: J L SCHWAB DITCH 1 ANTE (1872-06-10). Immediately behind: HENDRICKSON & DISSMORE (1872-06-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8197.0 | 1872-06-10 | 1896-03-12 | 1.45 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 45 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 115 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 3 AF — 3% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 108 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 4 | 102 | 0.9 |
| 2011 | 115 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 60 | 1.5 |
| 2012 | 64 | 5th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | — | 110 | 0.4 |
| 2013 | 152 | 12th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | — | 183 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 113 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | — | 76 | 0.9 |
| 2015 | 50 | 4th lowest of 15 · 44% of median | — | 190 | 0.2 |
| 2016 | 115 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 109 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 183 | 14th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | — | 118 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 144 | 11th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | — | 79 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 116 | 10th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | — | 89 | 1.1 |
| 2021 | 158 | 13th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | — | 135 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 342 | 15th lowest of 15 · 297% of median | — | 218 | 0.8 |
| 2023 | 49 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | — | 67 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 3 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 3% of median | — | 47 | 0.0 |
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