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Structure dossier · WDID 4700859 · 1 · MICHIGAN RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:34 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 1885-05-31 — 55th 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: WYCKOFF DITCH (1885-05-16). Immediately behind: YOCUM NO 1 DITCH (1885-05-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12935.0 | 1885-05-31 | 1892-09-19 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 37(35) |
| 14366.0 | 1889-05-01 | 1892-09-19 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 176(159) |
| 15151.0 | 1891-06-25 | 1892-09-19 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 248(220) |
| 22462.0 | 1911-07-02 | 1913-01-06 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 369 |
| 50403.45424 | 1974-05-14 | 1988-12-31 | 7.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,213 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 614 AF — 51% of that, and 3rd 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 | 1,226 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 62 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 566 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 62 | 10.0 |
| 2013 | 1,130 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 56 | 15.0 |
| 2014 | 1,563 | 13th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 55 | 17.5 |
| 2015 | 2,033 | 14th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 73 | 22.5 |
| 2016 | 1,129 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 45 | 20.3 |
| 2017 | 2,171 | 15th lowest of 15 · 179% of median | 88 | 17.2 |
| 2018 | 1,405 | 12th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 91 | 13.6 |
| 2019 | 1,363 | 11th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 64 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 881 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 58 | 18.5 |
| 2021 | 650 | 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 71 | 7.9 |
| 2022 | 230 | 1st lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 41 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 1,343 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 64 | 16.8 |
| 2024 | 1,213 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 62 | 20.3 |
| 2025 | 614 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 55 | 12.4 |
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