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MUNKERS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000609 · 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 1898-06-30 — 60th 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: CRAZY MANS DITCH (1897-05-18). Immediately behind: PINNEY DITCH NO 1 (1900-11-07).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17713.0 | 1898-06-30 | 1906-08-11 | 0.875 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 61 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 207 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 340 AF — 164% of that, and 13th 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 | 311 | 12th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 73 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 404 | 14th lowest of 15 · 195% of median | 152 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 130 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 71 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 159 | 5th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 65 | 2.1 |
| 2014 | 654 | 15th lowest of 15 · 316% of median | 56 | 7.7 |
| 2015 | 276 | 11th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 51 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 201 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 57 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 207 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 71 | 2.3 |
| 2018 | 92 | 1st lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 41 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 154 | 4th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 38 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 142 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 65 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 202 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 83 | 2.5 |
| 2022 | 254 | 10th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 62 | 2.5 |
| 2023 | 252 | 9th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 77 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 340 | 13th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 90 | 3.0 |
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