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W H MILLER DITCH 2
Structure dossier · WDID 2300997 · DITCH · MICHIGAN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:33 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (e70d0b5) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Current administration
● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).
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 1888-04-20 — 750th most senior of the 21881 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: 8000848 (1888-03-01). Immediately behind: MCKAY LAKE (1888-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13990.0 | 1888-04-20 | 1889-10-18 | 1.35 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 37 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 24 AF — 65% of that, and 5th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 12 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 13 | 0.5 |
| 1995 | 91 | 13th lowest of 15 · 246% of median | 49 | 1.4 |
| 1996 | 30 | 7th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 16 | 2.0 |
| 1997 | 137 | 14th lowest of 15 · 370% of median | 71 | 1.4 |
| 1998 | 50 | 9th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 49 | 0.8 |
| 1999 | 237 | 15th lowest of 15 · 640% of median | 94 | 1.3 |
| 2000 | 37 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 19 | 1.4 |
| 2001 | 64 | 11th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 38 | 1.4 |
| 2003 | 52 | 10th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 15 | 2.0 |
| 2005 | 67 | 12th lowest of 15 · 181% of median | 35 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 16 | 4th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 7 | 1.4 |
| 2011 | 27 | 6th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 56 | 0.2 |
| 2012 | 2 | 1st lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 2 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 4 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 11% of median | 3 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 24 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 16 | 2.0 |
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