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MARTIN NO 1 DITCH (SOUTH FORK HGT)
Structure dossier · WDID 5000601 · 1 · LITTLE MUDDY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1890-06-30 — 42nd 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: KURTZ DITCH NO 1 (1890-06-10). Immediately behind: MARTIN NO 1 DITCH (NORTH FORK HGT) (1890-06-30).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14791.0 | 1890-06-30 | 1906-08-11 | 9.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECDOMOTH | 42 |
| 31393.31206 | 1935-06-10 | 1938-07-13 | 24.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNRECDOMOTH | 162 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,023 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 569 AF — 56% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,500 | 12th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 55 | 20.3 |
| 2011 | 1,453 | 10th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 70 | 17.4 |
| 2012 | 1,023 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 53 | 17.1 |
| 2013 | 923 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 39 | 15.3 |
| 2014 | 1,645 | 14th lowest of 15 · 161% of median | 68 | 24.1 |
| 2015 | 1,625 | 13th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 64 | 19.3 |
| 2016 | 1,494 | 11th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 71 | 18.0 |
| 2017 | 1,697 | 15th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 64 | 24.1 |
| 2018 | 692 | 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 60 | 10.0 |
| 2019 | 1,099 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 83 | 10.0 |
| 2020 | 126 | 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median | 56 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 564 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 72 | 6.0 |
| 2022 | 835 | 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 75 | 9.0 |
| 2023 | 655 | 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 75 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 569 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 68 | 5.0 |
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