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MILK CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800826 · 1 · MILK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 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 1920-05-01 — 898th 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: DAN VADER STOCKWATER WEL (1919-05-01). Immediately behind: COLEMAN COCHETOPA WELL 7 (1921-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 44559.25688 | 1920-05-01 | 1972-12-31 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 86 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 40 | 4th lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 46 | 0.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 71 | 0.1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2011 | 52 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 69 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 68 | 7th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 110 | 0.6 |
| 2014 | 111 | 9th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 58 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 191 | 11th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 128 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 86 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 60 | 1.4 |
| 2017 | 450 | 15th lowest of 15 · 523% of median | 137 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 53 | 6th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 101 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 391 | 14th lowest of 15 · 455% of median | 124 | 1.8 |
| 2021 | 250 | 13th lowest of 15 · 291% of median | 142 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 149 | 10th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 55 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 191 | 11th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 80 | 1.4 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
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