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HARTMAN MCINTYRE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000557 · 1 · MUDDY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:25 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 1883-10-09 — 102nd most senior of the 4661 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: CATHEDRAL PL SPG NO 3 (1883-10-09). Immediately behind: CEDAR CANYON IRON SPRINGS DITCH (1883-10-24).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12335.0 | 1883-10-09 | 1889-06-17 | 9.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 1 |
| 31924.14413 | 1889-06-17 | 1954-03-20 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | DOMSTK | J35 |
| 31924.15537 | 1892-07-15 | 1954-03-20 | 5.6 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | J42, J43 |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA3503, CA5171, CA0038.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3503 | 3 | 1954-03-20 | S |
CA5171 | 1 | 1889-06-17 | O |
CA0038 | 1 | 1889-06-17 | O |
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 414 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 318 AF — 77% of that, and 5th 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 | 414 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 168 | 3.5 |
| 2011 | 445 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 168 | 3.5 |
| 2012 | 322 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 190 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 558 | 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 211 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 506 | 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 196 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 428 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 212 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 544 | 12th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 175 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 566 | 14th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 210 | 5.5 |
| 2018 | 209 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 200 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 795 | 15th lowest of 15 · 192% of median | 211 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 168 | 1st lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 195 | 2.2 |
| 2021 | 412 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 206 | 4.0 |
| 2022 | 183 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 152 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 280 | 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 174 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 318 | 5th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 165 | 1.8 |
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 A (9/10 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 | 10719 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 92% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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