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SCHWAB DITCH ENLARGEMENT
Structure dossier · WDID 5000727 · 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 1998-11-17 — 309th 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: RENO GRAVITY PIPELINE (1998-11-17). Immediately behind: RITSCHARD SPRING NO 4 (1993-09-27).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54377.0 | 1998-11-17 | 1998-12-31 | 4.5 | 0.0 | C | IRROTH |
Recorded use (last 12 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 884 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,001 AF — 113% of that, and 8th lowest of the 12 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 12 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2000 | 1,053 | 9th lowest of 12 · 119% of median | 365 | 8.0 |
| 2001 | 1,730 | 12th lowest of 12 · 196% of median | 304 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 566 | 3rd lowest of 12 · 64% of median | 123 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 1,362 | 11th lowest of 12 · 154% of median | 184 | 17.7 |
| 2018 | 950 | 7th lowest of 12 · 108% of median | 304 | 10.0 |
| 2019 | 362 | 2nd lowest of 12 · 41% of median | 31 | 9.0 |
| 2020 | 733 | 4th lowest of 12 · 83% of median | 154 | 10.0 |
| 2021 | 812 | 5th lowest of 12 · 92% of median | 365 | 9.5 |
| 2022 | 817 | 6th lowest of 12 · 92% of median | 365 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 1,055 | 10th lowest of 12 · 119% of median | 365 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 1,001 | 8th lowest of 12 · 113% of median | 305 | 9.0 |
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