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MINTURN WATER SYSTEM DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700715 · 1 · CROSS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:11 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.
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 1886-06-04 — 312th most senior of the 2162 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: RED CLIFF PIPELINE (1915-06-01). Immediately behind: MINTURN PUMPING PLANT (1891-07-01).
Decreed rights (7)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24052.13304 | 1886-06-04 | 1916-06-05 | 0.2143 | 0.0 | C | COMINDFIRDOM | DOM1A |
| 24052.19357 | 1902-12-31 | 1916-06-05 | 0.0979 | 0.0 | C | COMINDFIRDOM | DOM3A |
| 24052.21914 | 1909-12-31 | 1916-06-05 | 0.2448 | 0.0 | C | COMINDFIRDOM | DOM8A |
| 24052.22736 | 1912-04-01 | 1916-06-05 | 7.0 | 0.0 | C | COMINDFIRDOMOTH | DOM10 |
| 53325.53217 | 1995-09-14 | 1996-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMSTKPWRWLD | |
| 57340.0 | 2006-12-28 | 2006-12-31 | 0.0 | 8.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGSNO | |
| 57696.0 | 2007-12-19 | 2007-12-31 | 0.63 | 7.37 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISDOMAUGSNOOTH |
Legal record & documents
25 decreed actions on record across
8 court cases:
16CW3125, 07CW0225, 06CW0264, 96CW0324, CA1333, CA1137, CA0671, 97CW0161.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
16CW3125 | 1 | 2007-12-31 | S |
07CW0225 | 1 | 2007-12-31 | S |
06CW0264 | 1 | 2006-12-31 | S |
96CW0324 | 1 | 1996-12-31 | S |
CA1333 | 8 | 1916-06-05 | S |
CA1137 | 8 | 1916-06-05 | S |
CA0671 | 4 | 1916-06-05 | S |
97CW0161 | 1 | 1916-06-05 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 51 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 23 AF — 45% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 181 | 15th lowest of 15 · 355% of median | 304 | 0.9 |
| 2011 | 34 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 61 | 0.4 |
| 2012 | 179 | 14th lowest of 15 · 351% of median | 366 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 122 | 13th lowest of 15 · 239% of median | 365 | 0.4 |
| 2014 | 76 | 11th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 365 | 0.3 |
| 2015 | 68 | 9th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 365 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 48 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 366 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 68 | 9th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 365 | 0.6 |
| 2018 | 107 | 12th lowest of 15 · 210% of median | 365 | 0.4 |
| 2019 | 45 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 365 | 0.3 |
| 2020 | 32 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 366 | 0.2 |
| 2021 | 51 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 0.4 |
| 2022 | 48 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 365 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 35 | 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 365 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 23 | 1st lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 305 | 0.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-7 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.004).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 7 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 9802 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 68% of the irrigation seasons in 1958-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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