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· every download of this record carries its certificate idMICHIGAN DITCH EXCHANGE REACH
Structure dossier · WDID 4708000 · REACH · MICHIGAN RIVER · DWR record
Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-10-13 03:26 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (dd58e60) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Who owns it
- City of Fort Collins — from Hydrohistorian's hand-curated transbasin register.
DWR’s own records name no owner for a ditch, reservoir or well, so this comes from the source shown and can be out of date. Organisations only: a private landowner’s name is never listed.
This is water crossing the divide
Michigan Ditch Exchange Reach is the source end of the Michigan Ditch (ditch). It takes water from Michigan River, North Platte basin at Cameron Pass (Div 6) and delivers it to Joe Wright Creek, Cache la Poudre (Div 1). Water leaving here is an export: it never reaches the rest of this basin.
The other end: Michigan Ditch Release Structure 0304603
Metered as a facility: MICDCPCO — the record for the crossing itself, which may run longer than the record for either structure.
Owner / operator: City of Fort Collins
From the site’s hand-curated register of transbasin facilities. Every crossing on one page →
In short
It was a party to 1 court cases that also touched 1 other structures.
Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (2 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.
What DWR has on file
DWR lists this structure as REACH on MICHIGAN RIVER. Beyond that identity, no decreed water rights and no diversion records are on file for it.
That is a statement about the public record, not about the structure: a well group, an augmentation plan component or a recently inventoried structure can be real and administered while carrying no separate decree and reporting no diversions of its own. The DWR record for 4708000 is the authority.
Download this structure
Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.
⇩ Full record (.zip) Print / save as PDF
Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv
What is in the bundle
rights.csv— every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.annual_use.csv— recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.curtailment_now.csv— each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.court_cases.csv— the cases attached to its rights.co_parties.csv— the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.call_climatology.csv— how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.README.txt— provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it (instream). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: no decreed right on file, so there is no priority to test.
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
83CW0099.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
83CW0099 | 1 | 1983-12-31 | O |
3 imaged documents on DWR’s shelf for this structure — 3 water-court documents across 1 case, including 1 decree. Every row opens the scanned PDF at DWR. Listing as of 2026-09-22.
- Decree in case 83CW0099 ↗ · imaged 2005-12-05 · 1 page
“Imaged” is the date DWR’s archive filed the scan, which is often years after the court acted (a 1911 decree can be imaged in 2011). The court’s own date is the adjudication date in the rights table.
Court record (3)
| Imaged | Case | Type | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-12-05 | 83CW0099 |
APPLICATION | 3 | open ↗ |
| 2005-12-05 | 83CW0099 |
DECREE | 1 | open ↗ |
| 2005-12-05 | 83CW0099 |
OTHER | 2 | open ↗ |
The rest of the Michigan Ditch
DWR records this ditch as more than one structure, and files each decreed right, court case and decree under the structure the court named — so this page and Michigan Ditch Release Structure each hold part of one legal record. Everything below is filed under the other structure, not this one.
Filed under Michigan Ditch Release Structure (0304603, receiving end)
Decree on file
- Decree in case W9385 ↗ · imaged 2005-08-24 · 3 pages
Imaged documents at DWR. DWR keeps the scanned documents for this structure — decrees, rulings, plats, correspondence — in its Laserfiche archive. Open the list directly: imaged documents for 4708000 ↗ (indexed by structure, not by case — the cases listed above appear within the list).
Other DWR records for this structure: DWR’s page for this structure ↗ — net amounts, water rights, transactions & adjudication history, and diversion records, all on that one page. On this site: the district’s full legal picture →
Structures it shares court cases with
This structure was a party to 1 court case that also touched 1 other structure — changes of water right, augmentation plans, exchanges. Being parties to the same case does not by itself mean water moved between them; which way it ran, and how much, is in the decree.
| Case | Filed | Also touched |
|---|---|---|
83CW0099 |
1983 | MICHIGAN DITCH |
How this is derived
Every court action DWR records for a structure
carries its case number. Where one case number appears in the records of
several structures, those structures were parties to the same proceeding.
This is read straight from the cached transaction tables — no
document was interpreted to build it. Case numbers are validated against
the known Colorado formats first: the case column also contains stray
dates (10/04/1884 appears on 98 Clear Creek rows), and
treating one as a case number would invent a shared proceeding between
60 unrelated structures. Cases spanning more than
12 structures are separated out as omnibus
adjudications. The filing year comes from the case number, not from the
row's adjudication date — that date belongs to the water right the
action describes, so a 2006 case legitimately carries a 1989 date.
How good is our record of it?
Grade C (4/10 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 | absent | no water rights cached for this WDID |
| diversion record | absent | no diversion records cached |
| record continuity | unknown | no record span to measure against |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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