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MICALE ROUBIDEAU RANCH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4002570 · 1 · ROUBIDEAU CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:13 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 1992-03-23 — 2976th 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: RIVER BOTTOM POND NO 3 (1991-11-25). Immediately behind: RIVER BOTTOM P & PL (1992-04-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51947.0 | 1992-03-23 | 1992-12-31 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
10CW0196, 98CW0138, 92CW0026.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
10CW0196 | 1 | 2010-12-31 | S |
98CW0138 | 1 | 1992-12-31 | S |
92CW0026 | 1 | 1992-12-31 | 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 14 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 147 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 562 AF — 382% of that, and 14th lowest of the 14 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 490 | 13th lowest of 14 · 333% of median | 144 | 2.0 |
| 2012 | 391 | 11th lowest of 14 · 266% of median | 162 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 423 | 12th lowest of 14 · 288% of median | 173 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 24 | 2nd lowest of 14 · 16% of median | 49 | 0.5 |
| 2015 | 55 | 4th lowest of 14 · 37% of median | 53 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 121 | 7th lowest of 14 · 82% of median | 83 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 174 | 9th lowest of 14 · 118% of median | 132 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 84 | 5th lowest of 14 · 57% of median | 115 | 2.0 |
| 2019 | 53 | 3rd lowest of 14 · 36% of median | 67 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 14 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 173 | 8th lowest of 14 · 118% of median | 111 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 94 | 6th lowest of 14 · 64% of median | 138 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 286 | 10th lowest of 14 · 195% of median | 137 | 1.5 |
| 2024 | 562 | 14th lowest of 14 · 382% of median | 161 | 2.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 14 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1526 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 53% of the irrigation seasons in 2011-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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