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MOREY DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 4000889 · 1 · CUMMINGS GULCH · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:36 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.

Which of its rights get called out?

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 1919-04-20 — 1447th 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: ARTHUR L. MARTIN DITCH (1917-05-01). Immediately behind: METZGER DITCH (1919-08-10).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
25807.253111919-04-201930-02-10 1.00.0 CIRR G92

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 329 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2012, came in at 464 AF — 141% of that, and 10th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1992 301 5th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 161 1.0
1993 269 1st lowest of 15 · 82% of median 159 1.0
1994 305 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 169 1.0
1995 309 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median 173 1.0
1996 293 3rd lowest of 15 · 89% of median 169 1.0
1997 329 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 181 1.0
1998 391 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median 205 1.0
1999 535 11th lowest of 15 · 163% of median 245 1.5
2000 881 15th lowest of 15 · 268% of median 281 2.5
2001 581 12th lowest of 15 · 177% of median 179 2.5
2002 620 13th lowest of 15 · 188% of median 143 2.5
2003 737 14th lowest of 15 · 224% of median 182 2.5
2004 290 2nd lowest of 15 · 88% of median 150 1.0
2005 300 4th lowest of 15 · 91% of median 140 3.5
2012 464 10th lowest of 15 · 141% of median 182 1.5

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