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HERMAN DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5000583 · 1 · MUDDY CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:01 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1905-05-19 — 104th most senior of the 360 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: DUNNING DITCH (1891-06-30). Immediately behind: HILL CREEK DITCH (1905-06-15).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
22494.202271905-05-191915-03-20 0.750.25 CIRR 116

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 47 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 69 AF — 147% of that, and 13th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2006 47 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 35 0.7
2007 22 4th lowest of 15 · 47% of median 23 0.5
2008 61 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 37 1.2
2009 94 14th lowest of 15 · 200% of median 41 1.6
2010 47 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 41 0.7
2011 135 15th lowest of 15 · 287% of median 57 1.3
2012 26 5th lowest of 15 · 55% of median 27 0.5
2013 36 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median 31 0.6
2014 52 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 34 0.8
2015 49 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 32 0.8
2016 67 12th lowest of 15 · 143% of median 29 1.2
2017 18 2nd lowest of 15 · 38% of median 19 0.5
2018 16 1st lowest of 15 · 34% of median 19 0.5
2019 21 3rd lowest of 15 · 45% of median 20 0.6
2023 69 13th lowest of 15 · 147% of median 44 1.0

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.