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MUD SPRINGS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800883 · 1 · CRYSTAL SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:08 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 1899-10-07 — 250th 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: HARDING SPRING W W DITCH (1898-03-15). Immediately behind: DAN GERMAN DITCH (1890-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18177.0 | 1899-10-07 | 1900-02-20 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 213 |
| 23189.186 | 1900-12-04 | 1913-11-15 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 213BBBAB |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA1173, CA0875, 06CW0118.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1173 | 1 | 1913-11-15 | S |
CA0875 | 1 | 1900-02-20 | S |
06CW0118 | 1 | 1900-02-20 | 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 155 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 159 AF — 103% of that, and 9th 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 | 144 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 183 | 0.4 |
| 2009 | 150 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 191 | 0.4 |
| 2011 | 148 | 5th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 152 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 146 | 4th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 152 | 0.5 |
| 2013 | 155 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 171 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 169 | 12th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 173 | 0.5 |
| 2015 | 69 | 1st lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 73 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 133 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 137 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 154 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 158 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 176 | 14th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 178 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 168 | 11th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 170 | 0.5 |
| 2021 | 180 | 15th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 183 | 0.5 |
| 2022 | 174 | 13th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 176 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 160 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 162 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 159 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 161 | 0.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+1 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.048).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5009 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 39% of the irrigation seasons in 1964-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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