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WATERMAN METROZ DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800711 · 1 · QUARTZ CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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 1900-04-10 — 659th 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: RAUSIS NO 2 DITCH (1898-04-18). Immediately behind: ROCK SLIDE SPRING DITCH (1900-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28311.18362 | 1900-04-10 | 1943-04-19 | 12.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRAUG | 276 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,072 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,101 AF — 103% of that, and 9th 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 | 1,319 | 13th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 97 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 165 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 50 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 639 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 52 | 8.8 |
| 2014 | 1,072 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 72 | 10.0 |
| 2015 | 1,481 | 14th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 46 | 25.0 |
| 2016 | 745 | 6th lowest of 15 · 70% of median | 76 | 6.8 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 568 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 111 | 4.7 |
| 2019 | 1,303 | 12th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 72 | 16.9 |
| 2020 | 1,208 | 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 97 | 7.3 |
| 2021 | 1,723 | 15th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 97 | 11.6 |
| 2022 | 823 | 7th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 70 | 7.6 |
| 2023 | 1,281 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 99 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 678 | 5th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 52 | 7.6 |
| 2025 | 1,101 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 106 | 6.8 |
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