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MORTON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4000808 · 1 · CURRANT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:00 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 1904-03-02 — 1215th 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: BAILEY DITCH (1903-09-08). Immediately behind: BUCKLEY DITCH (1905-04-01).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21089.19784 | 1904-03-02 | 1908-03-20 | 4.12 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 12 |
| 21089.20559 | 1906-04-16 | 1908-03-20 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 14 |
| 21263.20679 | 1906-08-14 | 1914-06-23 | 1.625 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A88 |
| 21263.20703 | 1906-09-07 | 1914-06-23 | 3.125 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A89 |
| 21263.20854 | 1907-02-05 | 1914-06-23 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | A92 |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA0617, CA0584.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA0617 | 3 | 1914-06-23 | S |
CA0584 | 2 | 1908-03-20 | 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 162 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 266 AF — 164% of that, and 11th 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 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 41 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 242 | 10th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 129 | 3.0 |
| 2015 | 66 | 5th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 21 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 389 | 14th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 126 | 2.7 |
| 2017 | 560 | 15th lowest of 15 · 346% of median | 178 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 162 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 80 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 316 | 13th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 125 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 225 | 9th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 81 | 2.3 |
| 2021 | 70 | 6th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 37 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 135 | 7th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 60 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 295 | 12th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 88 | 2.0 |
| 2024 | 266 | 11th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 87 | 2.3 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+19 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.045).
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 | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 6938 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 59% 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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