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MEANS BROS. NO. 8 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800650 · 1 · TOMICHI CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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.
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 1885-05-31 — 107th 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: HAZARD DITCH (1885-05-31). Immediately behind: MUNSON DITCH (1885-06-01).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16192.12935 | 1885-05-31 | 1904-04-29 | 3.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 80 |
| 28311.12935 | 1885-05-31 | 1943-04-19 | 14.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 244 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 436 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 179 AF — 41% of that, and 2nd 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 | 536 | 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 72 | 5.5 |
| 2012 | 12 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 26 | 0.4 |
| 2013 | 378 | 7th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 60 | 6.1 |
| 2014 | 436 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 112 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 581 | 12th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 66 | 6.6 |
| 2016 | 436 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 49 | 6.0 |
| 2017 | 732 | 15th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 81 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 321 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 132 | 5.0 |
| 2019 | 317 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 45 | 5.4 |
| 2020 | 196 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 51 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 638 | 14th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 75 | 5.2 |
| 2022 | 634 | 13th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 70 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 518 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 54 | 6.3 |
| 2024 | 288 | 4th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 46 | 4.6 |
| 2025 | 179 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 54 | 3.8 |
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