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REYNOLDS AND CAIN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900659 · 1 · MITCHELL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:20 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 1883-04-19 — 13th most senior of the 1758 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: DEERFIELD PARK IRR PUMP (1883-04-01). Immediately behind: KRIZ PUMP AND PIPELINE (1883-04-19).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12162.0 | 1883-04-19 | 1889-05-11 | 3.771 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMAUGOTH | 8 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 730 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2005, came in at 469 AF — 64% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 1,180 | 15th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 191 | 3.3 |
| 1990 | 701 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 161 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 855 | 14th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 173 | 2.6 |
| 1992 | 733 | 10th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 183 | 2.1 |
| 1993 | 748 | 11th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 181 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 678 | 5th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 171 | 2.0 |
| 1996 | 831 | 12th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 184 | 3.0 |
| 1997 | 839 | 13th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 184 | 2.3 |
| 1998 | 679 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 184 | 1.9 |
| 2000 | 730 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 184 | 2.0 |
| 2001 | 730 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 184 | 2.0 |
| 2002 | 438 | 1st lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 133 | 2.0 |
| 2003 | 464 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 187 | 1.2 |
| 2004 | 479 | 4th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 194 | 1.4 |
| 2005 | 469 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 182 | 1.3 |
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