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MOONEY DITCH 2
Structure dossier · WDID 4301048 · 1 · PICEANCE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:26 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.
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 1898-04-10 — 995th 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: MOONEY DITCH 1 (1898-04-10). Immediately behind: UPPER WALLACE DITCH 1 (1898-06-15).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32172.17632 | 1898-04-10 | 1942-05-26 | 0.95 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 380 |
| 32172.24592 | 1917-05-01 | 1942-05-26 | 2.21 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 467K |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 18 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 18 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 25 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 138 | 12th lowest of 15 · 767% of median | 63 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 24 | 9th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 14 | 2.0 |
| 2003 | 56 | 10th lowest of 15 · 311% of median | 31 | 2.0 |
| 2004 | 73 | 11th lowest of 15 · 406% of median | 23 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 228 | 13th lowest of 15 · 1267% of median | 61 | 3.9 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 7th lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 20 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 481 | 15th lowest of 15 · 2672% of median | 118 | 2.1 |
| 2024 | 290 | 14th lowest of 15 · 1611% of median | 60 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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