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MICHAELS SEEPAGE DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 3400549 · 1 · MANCOS RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 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 1910-05-10 — 361st most senior of the 495 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: FRANK DITCH SUPPLEMENT (1909-12-31). Immediately behind: COPPINGER NO 2 RESERVOIR (1912-05-15).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
30667.220441910-05-101963-03-22 0.750.0 CIRRDOM 62-29

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 106 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 12 AF — 11% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1994 135 14th lowest of 15 · 127% of median 128 0.6
1995 115 12th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 119 0.6
1996 106 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 123 0.6
1997 107 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median 81 0.8
1998 112 11th lowest of 15 · 106% of median 99 0.7
1999 99 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 94 0.6
2000 110 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 102 0.7
2001 98 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 83 0.8
2004 140 15th lowest of 15 · 132% of median 89 0.8
2005 56 5th lowest of 15 · 53% of median 59 0.8
2006 39 4th lowest of 15 · 37% of median 60 0.4
2007 11 1st lowest of 15 · 10% of median 29 0.3
2008 21 3rd lowest of 15 · 20% of median 77 0.4
2009 120 13th lowest of 15 · 113% of median 318 0.5
2010 12 2nd lowest of 15 · 11% of median 113 0.1

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.