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MEANS BROS. NO. 5 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800646 · 1 · MARSHALL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 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 1888-06-30 — 139th most senior of the 1505 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: MEANS BROS. NO. 1 DITCH (1888-06-30). Immediately behind: MCDONOUGH DITCH (1888-08-15).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16192.14061 | 1888-06-30 | 1904-04-29 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 98 |
| 16192.15096 | 1891-05-01 | 1904-04-29 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 109 |
| 19842.14061 | 1888-06-30 | 1943-04-19 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 256 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,590 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,590 AF — 100% of that, and 7th 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 | 402 | 1st lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 70 | 4.4 |
| 2012 | 1,265 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 112 | 10.3 |
| 2013 | 957 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 91 | 11.3 |
| 2014 | 1,260 | 5th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 92 | 7.1 |
| 2015 | 1,870 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 75 | 14.7 |
| 2016 | 1,141 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 83 | 14.3 |
| 2017 | 2,450 | 13th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 100 | 15.8 |
| 2018 | 1,829 | 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 99 | 12.9 |
| 2019 | 1,590 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 69 | 14.7 |
| 2020 | 500 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 31 | 9.0 |
| 2021 | 2,322 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 114 | 13.8 |
| 2022 | 2,291 | 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 99 | 16.3 |
| 2023 | 2,702 | 14th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 107 | 18.2 |
| 2024 | 3,034 | 15th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 111 | 21.3 |
| 2025 | 1,590 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 63 | 16.6 |
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