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MONROE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4701031 · 1 · COYOTE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:16 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 1896-12-31 — 572nd 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: HEADACHE DITCH (1895-12-31). Immediately behind: RIDINGS RES (1900-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 33534.17167 | 1896-12-31 | 1958-01-10 | 4.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 743 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 500 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 534 AF — 107% of that, and 9th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 263 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 92 | 3.5 |
| 2005 | 589 | 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 102 | 6.0 |
| 2006 | 409 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 93 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 500 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 157 | 2.2 |
| 2008 | 594 | 12th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 134 | 6.0 |
| 2009 | 992 | 15th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 134 | 5.0 |
| 2010 | 718 | 13th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 130 | 6.0 |
| 2011 | 725 | 14th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 98 | 6.0 |
| 2014 | 375 | 4th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 59 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 65 | 1st lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 68 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 465 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 127 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 273 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 145 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 550 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 96 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 406 | 5th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 60 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 534 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 89 | 4.0 |
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