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MUDDY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3700721 · 1 · ALKALI CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:58 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 1889-04-05 — 88th 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: ADAMS RIB WELL AR-4 (1889-04-01). Immediately behind: PINEY VALLEY RANCH DITCH (1889-04-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14340.0 | 1889-04-05 | 1889-12-17 | 2.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 78 |
| 30894.14705 | 1890-04-05 | 1936-10-03 | 1.26 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 378 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 460 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 90 AF — 20% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 515 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 150 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 460 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 153 | 3.5 |
| 2007 | 786 | 14th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 176 | 3.2 |
| 2008 | 736 | 13th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 169 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 833 | 15th lowest of 15 · 181% of median | 145 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 283 | 7th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 181 | 1.7 |
| 2011 | 164 | 5th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 146 | 1.8 |
| 2014 | 475 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 154 | 2.7 |
| 2015 | 577 | 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 168 | 1.8 |
| 2017 | 114 | 4th lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 38 | 1.6 |
| 2018 | 252 | 6th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 104 | 5.1 |
| 2019 | 473 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 56 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 113 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 53 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 90 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 16 | 3.4 |
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