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STANDARD DITCH HDGT NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 1500599 · 1 · NORTH MUDDY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:54 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 1873-06-30 — 79th most senior of the 704 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: DAVIS DITCH (1873-06-01). Immediately behind: STANDARD DITCH HDGT NO 2 (1873-06-30).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8582.0 | 1873-06-30 | 1893-06-26 | 1.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 89 |
| 9997.0 | 1877-05-15 | 1893-06-26 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 117 |
| 10957.0 | 1879-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 127 |
| 12418.0 | 1883-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 149 |
| 12784.0 | 1884-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 157 |
| 15706.0 | 1892-12-31 | 1893-06-26 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 198 |
Legal record & documents
6 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA2756.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2756 | 6 | 1893-06-26 | 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 149 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 24 AF — 16% of that, and 3rd 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 | 139 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 126 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 518 | 14th lowest of 15 · 348% of median | 189 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 26 | 4th lowest of 15 · 17% of median | 28 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 413 | 13th lowest of 15 · 277% of median | 180 | 2.3 |
| 2015 | 154 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 43 | 2.3 |
| 2016 | 302 | 11th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 103 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 526 | 15th lowest of 15 · 353% of median | 171 | 2.3 |
| 2018 | 21 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 68 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 338 | 12th lowest of 15 · 227% of median | 189 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 4 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 22 | 0.1 |
| 2021 | 199 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 167 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 56 | 5th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 54 | 0.8 |
| 2023 | 122 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 83 | 0.8 |
| 2024 | 149 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 111 | 0.8 |
| 2025 | 24 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 26 | 0.5 |
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 | 6 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 18226 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 74% of the irrigation seasons in 1911-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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