Hydrohistorian
← My Water · Print / save as PDF
MARTIN OUTLET DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000674 · 1 · COLBURN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 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 in line
Priority 1913-12-31 — 244th 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: HEINI-KRAMER RESERVOIR (1910-10-23). Immediately behind: ALBERT CREEK DITCH NO 4 (1913-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47116.23375 | 1913-12-31 | 1979-12-31 | 7.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 243 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 83 AF — 34% 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 | 634 | 14th lowest of 15 · 261% of median | 55 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 590 | 13th lowest of 15 · 243% of median | 53 | 7.3 |
| 2012 | 248 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 48 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 378 | 11th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 50 | 4.3 |
| 2014 | 550 | 12th lowest of 15 · 226% of median | 68 | 6.7 |
| 2015 | 807 | 15th lowest of 15 · 332% of median | 64 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 325 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 60 | 4.5 |
| 2017 | 232 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 52 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 237 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 56 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 243 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 67 | 5.0 |
| 2020 | 147 | 5th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 68 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 84 | 4th lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 54 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 77 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 46 | 1st lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 32 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 83 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 52 | 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.