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MARTIN DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 3800858 · 1 · WEST SOPRIS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:49 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.
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 1885-06-16 — 178th most senior of the 4788 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: KEETON & EMISON DITCH AP (1885-06-15). Immediately behind: SOMMERS DITCH (1885-06-20).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12951.0 | 1885-06-16 | 1889-05-11 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 125 |
| 13294.0 | 1886-05-25 | 1889-05-11 | 0.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 150 |
| 30941.26418 | 1922-05-01 | 1936-08-25 | 0.63 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 414E |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 264 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 439 AF — 166% of that, and 15th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 321 | 9th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 153 | 1.3 |
| 2008 | 371 | 12th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 168 | 1.3 |
| 2009 | 344 | 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 153 | 1.3 |
| 2010 | 335 | 10th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 177 | 1.3 |
| 2011 | 264 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 170 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 61 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 63 | 0.6 |
| 2013 | 193 | 7th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 107 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 145 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 74 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 161 | 5th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 82 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 172 | 6th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 123 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 155 | 4th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 53 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 43 | 1st lowest of 15 · 16% of median | 45 | 0.5 |
| 2022 | 428 | 14th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 167 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 375 | 13th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 154 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 439 | 15th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 179 | 1.3 |
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