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MARTIN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300789 · 1 · COAL CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:50 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1883-06-07 — 10th most senior of the 3293 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: P & L DITCH (1883-06-01). Immediately behind: MEEKER DITCH (1883-11-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12211.0 | 1883-06-07 | 1889-05-10 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 6 |
| 13393.0 | 1886-09-01 | 1889-05-10 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 48 |
| 32172.19889 | 1904-06-15 | 1942-05-26 | 5.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 416E |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 375 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 354 AF — 94% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 546 | 10th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 35 | 9.5 |
| 2009 | 667 | 13th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 60 | 9.4 |
| 2010 | 345 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 32 | 9.4 |
| 2011 | 555 | 11th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 36 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 1,133 | 15th lowest of 15 · 302% of median | 121 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 470 | 9th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 45 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 175 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 28 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 843 | 14th lowest of 15 · 225% of median | 102 | 6.0 |
| 2016 | 653 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 116 | 5.7 |
| 2017 | 110 | 1st lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 72 | 0.8 |
| 2018 | 246 | 4th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 42 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 375 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 46 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 169 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 37 | 3.8 |
| 2024 | 266 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 145 | 1.2 |
| 2025 | 354 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 36 | 5.1 |
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