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MORAN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1900701 · 1 · SAN FRANCISCO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:18 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 1877-03-04 — 101st 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: RANDOLPH & HOWLETT DITCH (1875-04-30). Immediately behind: JEANNIN DITCH (1877-03-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9925.0 | 1877-03-04 | 1903-08-10 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 76 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 54 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 351 AF — 650% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 144 | 10th lowest of 15 · 267% of median | 72 | 1.4 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 54 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 24 | 3.1 |
| 2015 | 174 | 11th lowest of 15 · 322% of median | 71 | 2.5 |
| 2016 | 294 | 12th lowest of 15 · 544% of median | 65 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 417 | 14th lowest of 15 · 772% of median | 81 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 22 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 477 | 15th lowest of 15 · 883% of median | 116 | 2.8 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 14 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 120 | 9th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 49 | 3.0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 20 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 36 | 7th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 22 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 351 | 13th lowest of 15 · 650% of median | 84 | 4.0 |
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