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MOUNTAIN MEADOWS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800881 · 1 · CATTLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:25 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 1902-05-31 — 321st 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: SHOE IN WELL NO 1 (1902-01-14). Immediately behind: PATTERSON AND CUMMINS D (1893-11-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20242.19143 | 1902-05-31 | 1905-08-01 | 13.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 217BB |
| 25086.22641 | 1911-12-28 | 1918-09-27 | 40.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 231A |
| 39291.0 | 1957-07-29 | 1958-06-20 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNINDFISDOMSTK | 718 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
79CW0333, CA1997, CA4220, CA1145.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
79CW0333 | 1 | 1958-06-20 | S |
CA1997 | 1 | 1918-09-27 | S |
CA4220 | 1 | 1905-08-01 | S |
CA1145 | 1 | 1905-08-01 | 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 3,974 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 9,208 AF — 232% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,974 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 135 | 40.6 |
| 2011 | 4,311 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 123 | 34.5 |
| 2012 | 1,059 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 56 | 18.3 |
| 2013 | 2,925 | 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 104 | 49.9 |
| 2014 | 4,053 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 111 | 52.0 |
| 2015 | 3,829 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 92 | 52.0 |
| 2016 | 3,416 | 6th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 138 | 49.2 |
| 2017 | 2,704 | 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 111 | 29.8 |
| 2018 | 1,410 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 106 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 7,066 | 13th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 136 | 66.7 |
| 2020 | 4,231 | 10th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 111 | 55.0 |
| 2021 | 1,037 | 1st lowest of 15 · 26% of median | 99 | 9.0 |
| 2022 | 5,458 | 12th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 185 | 52.0 |
| 2023 | 8,426 | 14th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | 208 | 61.0 |
| 2024 | 9,208 | 15th lowest of 15 · 232% of median | 152 | 73.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 9919 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 62% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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