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MADRID DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1900644 · 1 · FRIJOLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1916-07-08 — 180th most senior of the 735 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: BAKER RESERVOIR (1916-05-08). Immediately behind: MCDONALD SEEPAGE DITCH (1916-10-24).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24295.0 | 1916-07-08 | 1925-01-12 | 8.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 226 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 30 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 365 | 0.0 |
| 1971 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 59 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 30 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 32 | 0.5 |
| 1982 | 9 | 6th lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 4 | 1.5 |
| 1985 | 50 | 9th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 26 | 1.0 |
| 1987 | 8 | 5th lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 3 | 2.0 |
| 1988 | 942 | 15th lowest of 15 · 3140% of median | 119 | 4.6 |
| 1989 | 187 | 13th lowest of 15 · 623% of median | 131 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 16 | 7th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 5 | 2.0 |
| 1992 | 395 | 14th lowest of 15 · 1317% of median | 56 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 56 | 10th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 8 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 95 | 11th lowest of 15 · 317% of median | 17 | 3.0 |
| 1997 | 103 | 12th lowest of 15 · 343% of median | 32 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
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