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Structure dossier · WDID 1500621 · 1 · MIDDLE 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 1866-06-30 — 36th 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: PIONEER MIDDLE CREEK (1866-06-30). Immediately behind: POLLARD DITCH (1866-12-15).

Decreed rights (5)

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
6025.01866-06-301893-06-26 1.60.0 CIRR 28
7305.01869-12-311893-06-26 0.50.0 CIRR 49
8706.01873-11-011893-06-26 0.30.0 CIRR 90
9862.01876-12-311893-06-26 0.10.0 CIRR 109
14245.01888-12-311893-06-26 0.30.0 CIRR 180

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 170 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 435 AF — 256% of that, and 14th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2011 29 1st lowest of 15 · 17% of median 71 0.5
2012 138 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median 45 2.8
2013 115 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median 67 2.7
2014 82 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median 26 2.1
2015 170 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 66 2.7
2016 179 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 67 2.9
2017 253 12th lowest of 15 · 149% of median 105 2.9
2018 118 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median 89 1.1
2019 146 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median 80 1.8
2020 51 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median 61 2.3
2021 246 11th lowest of 15 · 145% of median 178 2.1
2022 495 15th lowest of 15 · 291% of median 276 2.8
2023 244 10th lowest of 15 · 144% of median 187 1.8
2024 403 13th lowest of 15 · 237% of median 234 2.5
2025 435 14th lowest of 15 · 256% of median 200 2.6

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