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Structure dossier · WDID 3403587 · 3 · MUD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:21 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 1949-05-15 — 375th 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: L A BAR RESERVOIR (1945-04-01). Immediately behind: MATHEWS DITCH (1950-04-18).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36294.0 | 1949-05-15 | 1963-03-22 | 17.73 | 0.0 | A | IRRDOMSTK | R62-17 |
Recorded use (last 8 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 23 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2010, came in at 41 AF — 178% of that, and 7th lowest of the 8 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 26 | 6th lowest of 8 · 113% of median | 14 | 1.0 |
| 1982 | 24 | 5th lowest of 8 · 104% of median | 13 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 19 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 83% of median | 26 | 0.5 |
| 1985 | 14 | 1st lowest of 8 · 61% of median | 15 | 0.5 |
| 1986 | 19 | 2nd lowest of 8 · 83% of median | 20 | 0.5 |
| 2008 | 22 | 4th lowest of 8 · 96% of median | 48 | 0.2 |
| 2009 | 48 | 8th lowest of 8 · 209% of median | 37 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 41 | 7th lowest of 8 · 178% of median | 75 | 0.8 |
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