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LOST TREASURE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4700738 · 1 · SOUTH FORK MICHIGAN RIVE · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:46 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 1888-09-25 — 184th most senior of the 1262 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: HILL,CROUTER DITCH (1888-09-25). Immediately behind: MATHEWS, EASTERN DITCH (1888-09-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14148.0 | 1888-09-25 | 1902-04-23 | 55.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 160 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA1519.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1519 | 1 | 1902-04-23 | O |
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 3,777 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 5,850 AF — 155% of that, and 14th 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 | 1,732 | 1st lowest of 15 · 46% of median | 46 | 36.9 |
| 2012 | 3,153 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 64 | 46.4 |
| 2013 | 3,777 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 138 | 38.1 |
| 2014 | 2,057 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 29 | 42.2 |
| 2015 | 3,325 | 7th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 59 | 38.1 |
| 2016 | 2,309 | 4th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 58 | 31.1 |
| 2017 | 4,445 | 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 102 | 46.4 |
| 2018 | 4,551 | 12th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 144 | 34.1 |
| 2019 | 2,490 | 5th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 110 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 4,938 | 13th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 107 | 44.3 |
| 2021 | 3,875 | 9th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 110 | 48.3 |
| 2022 | 4,166 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 91 | 40.5 |
| 2023 | 10,628 | 15th lowest of 15 · 281% of median | 133 | 42.2 |
| 2024 | 2,303 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 28 | 43.0 |
| 2025 | 5,850 | 14th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 124 | 50.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+186 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.023).
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 | 6709 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 42% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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