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CHARLES MATTSON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3200520 · 1 · NARRAGUINNEP CANYON · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — 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 1898-04-25 — 141st most senior of the 638 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: KIRKEENG DITCH (1898-04-20). Immediately behind: CULLEN DITCH (1900-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17647.0 | 1898-04-25 | 1962-08-14 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 62-20 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 69 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 24 AF — 35% of that, and 4th 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 | 58 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 62 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 23 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 51 | 0.3 |
| 2013 | 34 | 5th lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 59 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 224 | 15th lowest of 15 · 325% of median | 116 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 214 | 14th lowest of 15 · 310% of median | 193 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 73 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 104 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 126 | 13th lowest of 15 · 183% of median | 153 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 108 | 12th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 64 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 12 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 12 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 69 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 106 | 0.7 |
| 2022 | 61 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 73 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 70 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 66 | 0.9 |
| 2024 | 87 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 157 | 0.4 |
| 2025 | 24 | 4th lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 58 | 0.3 |
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