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D D & E DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4400586 · 1 · MILK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:30 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 1888-03-01 — 46th most senior of the 3562 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: YAMPA VAL STOCK BR CO D (1887-10-22). Immediately behind: MILK CREEK DITCH (1888-03-01).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13940.0 | 1888-03-01 | 1894-09-22 | 582.0 | 0.0 | A | STOIRRINDAUG | 34 |
| 13940.0 | 1888-03-01 | 1894-09-22 | 8.4 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRINDAUG | 34 |
| 36295.16617 | 1895-06-30 | 1960-09-01 | 6.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 3 |
| 36295.22279 | 1910-12-31 | 1960-09-01 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 24 |
| 36295.25932 | 1920-12-31 | 1960-09-01 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 39 |
| 38498.0 | 1955-05-28 | 1960-09-01 | 14.33 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 80A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 3,354 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 6,733 AF — 201% of that, and 12th 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 | 3,360 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 117 | 60.0 |
| 2012 | 2,502 | 7th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 34 | 60.1 |
| 2013 | 1,036 | 5th lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 35 | 40.0 |
| 2014 | 1,706 | 6th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 48 | 30.0 |
| 2015 | 4,625 | 10th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 101 | 60.1 |
| 2016 | 3,354 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 89 | 60.1 |
| 2017 | 98 | 1st lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 45 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 439 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 37 | 9.0 |
| 2019 | 7,467 | 14th lowest of 15 · 223% of median | 96 | 60.1 |
| 2020 | 626 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 34 | 16.0 |
| 2021 | 7,284 | 13th lowest of 15 · 217% of median | 68 | 60.1 |
| 2022 | 7,692 | 15th lowest of 15 · 229% of median | 95 | 60.1 |
| 2023 | 737 | 4th lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 66 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 5,976 | 11th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 67 | 52.6 |
| 2025 | 6,733 | 12th lowest of 15 · 201% of median | 76 | 60.1 |
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