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CATCHPOLE MEADOW DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2900557 · 1 · MILL 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 (a1c9146) — 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 1950-06-30 — 254th most senior of the 853 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: H J WRIGHT R L BRIAR D 1 (1950-06-25). Immediately behind: ROCK SPRING PIPELINE (1950-08-09).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36705.0 | 1950-06-30 | 1962-04-19 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | #344 |
| 42155.0 | 1965-06-01 | 1968-12-19 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 68-222 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 121 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 109 AF — 90% 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 | 65 | 5th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 79 | 0.6 |
| 2012 | 134 | 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 72 | 1.7 |
| 2013 | 208 | 13th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 60 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 16 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 22 | 0.6 |
| 2015 | 121 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 42 | 2.4 |
| 2016 | 136 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 60 | 2.0 |
| 2017 | 73 | 6th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 101 | 0.9 |
| 2018 | 138 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 143 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 277 | 14th lowest of 15 · 229% of median | 163 | 2.3 |
| 2020 | 496 | 15th lowest of 15 · 410% of median | 157 | 4.5 |
| 2021 | 166 | 12th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 127 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 22 | 4th lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 49 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 8 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 109 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 24 | 2.5 |
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