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MISSOURI DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000606 · 1 · TROUBLESOME CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:03 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 1892-06-02 — 49th 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 2 (1892-06-02). Immediately behind: KURTZ DITCH NO 3 (1892-08-10).
Decreed rights (7)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15494.0 | 1892-06-02 | 1906-08-11 | 0.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 49 |
| 16756.0 | 1895-11-16 | 1906-08-11 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 56 |
| 19509.0 | 1903-06-01 | 1906-08-11 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 69 |
| 20382.0 | 1905-10-21 | 1906-08-11 | 14.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 78 |
| 20676.20588 | 1906-05-15 | 1911-08-03 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 101 |
| 22494.22085 | 1910-06-20 | 1915-03-20 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 120 |
| 33070.0 | 1940-07-17 | 1941-07-17 | 62.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 187 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 4,962 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 5,653 AF — 114% of that, and 10th 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 | 6,376 | 12th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 109 | 70.2 |
| 2011 | 7,135 | 15th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 102 | 64.3 |
| 2012 | 4,962 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 147 | 52.0 |
| 2013 | 4,241 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 89 | 60.2 |
| 2014 | 5,004 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 79 | 60.3 |
| 2015 | 3,549 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 54 | 55.2 |
| 2016 | 4,694 | 6th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 96 | 52.4 |
| 2017 | 4,862 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 129 | 50.2 |
| 2018 | 4,300 | 4th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 115 | 45.0 |
| 2019 | 5,985 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 135 | 68.0 |
| 2020 | 3,531 | 1st lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 65 | 50.0 |
| 2021 | 4,314 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 131 | 52.0 |
| 2022 | 6,405 | 13th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 98 | 60.0 |
| 2023 | 6,709 | 14th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 94 | 61.0 |
| 2024 | 5,653 | 10th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 92 | 58.1 |
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