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MILLER CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4300819 · 1 · WHITE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:12 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 1896-06-01 — 597th 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: SHERIDAN & MORTON D (1887-01-01). Immediately behind: PIONEER DITCH (1885-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19238.16954 | 1896-06-01 | 1903-05-25 | 57.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 134 |
| 32172.23139 | 1913-05-09 | 1942-05-26 | 30.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 445 |
| 32172.32022 | 1937-09-03 | 1942-05-26 | 12.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 486 |
| 46386.408 | 1961-09-15 | 1977-12-31 | 24.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 60630.60344 | 2015-03-20 | 2016-12-31 | 0.0 | 34.35 | C | PWR |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
16CW3032, W3435-77, 82CW0038, CA0624, CA0116.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
16CW3032 | 1 | 2016-12-31 | S |
W3435-77 | 2 | 1977-12-31 | S |
82CW0038 | 1 | 1977-12-31 | S |
CA0624 | 2 | 1942-05-26 | S |
CA0116 | 1 | 1903-05-25 | 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 24,862 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 24,862 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19,528 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 191 | 121.0 |
| 2012 | 30,102 | 14th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 218 | 121.4 |
| 2013 | 24,987 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 187 | 124.0 |
| 2014 | 30,350 | 15th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 175 | 102.6 |
| 2015 | 15,693 | 1st lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 189 | 84.9 |
| 2016 | 23,024 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 197 | 114.0 |
| 2017 | 24,144 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 185 | 78.2 |
| 2018 | 26,551 | 12th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 190 | 118.0 |
| 2019 | 21,785 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 168 | 141.4 |
| 2020 | 26,218 | 11th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 196 | 121.0 |
| 2021 | 27,269 | 13th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 177 | 121.4 |
| 2022 | 25,200 | 10th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 214 | 137.3 |
| 2023 | 22,237 | 4th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 173 | 125.3 |
| 2024 | 22,350 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 190 | 125.3 |
| 2025 | 24,862 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 183 | 113.7 |
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 | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 12356 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | continuous | 77% of the irrigation seasons in 1951-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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