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MITCHELL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800653 · 1 · COCHETOPA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:36 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 1891-06-10 — 657th 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: SMITH WELL (1891-05-10). Immediately behind: RAUSIS NO 2 DITCH (1898-04-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28311.15136 | 1891-06-10 | 1943-04-19 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 263 |
| 35168.15136 | 1891-06-10 | 1956-04-16 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 333 |
| 35168.34119 | 1943-06-01 | 1956-04-16 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 353 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 212 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 103 AF — 49% of that, and 3rd 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 | 278 | 10th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 53 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 86 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 65 | 1.2 |
| 2013 | 67 | 1st lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 70 | 0.7 |
| 2014 | 175 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 54 | 2.2 |
| 2015 | 375 | 14th lowest of 15 · 177% of median | 43 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 217 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 47 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 366 | 13th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 63 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 300 | 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 69 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 212 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 46 | 2.7 |
| 2020 | 521 | 15th lowest of 15 · 246% of median | 101 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 318 | 12th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 73 | 5.5 |
| 2022 | 191 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 82 | 2.3 |
| 2023 | 203 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 28 | 4.3 |
| 2024 | 199 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 128 | 1.0 |
| 2025 | 103 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 34 | 2.1 |
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