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TYLER TAILWATER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5000776 · 1 · MUDDY 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 1998-04-22 — 305th 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: SOPHOCLES SPRING (1970-08-27). Immediately behind: TYLER TAILWATER DITCH DEPLETION REACH (1998-04-22).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54168.0 | 1998-04-22 | 1998-12-31 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRROTH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 348 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 453 AF — 130% 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 | 493 | 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 365 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 586 | 14th lowest of 15 · 168% of median | 304 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 267 | 1st lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 153 | 7.9 |
| 2013 | 270 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 365 | 6.9 |
| 2014 | 551 | 12th lowest of 15 · 158% of median | 359 | 5.5 |
| 2015 | 567 | 13th lowest of 15 · 163% of median | 304 | 7.9 |
| 2016 | 449 | 9th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 93 | 7.5 |
| 2017 | 603 | 15th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 123 | 7.9 |
| 2018 | 278 | 4th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 304 | 5.4 |
| 2019 | 295 | 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 81 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 348 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 132 | 5.8 |
| 2021 | 267 | 1st lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 365 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 338 | 6th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 365 | 7.9 |
| 2023 | 345 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 365 | 7.9 |
| 2024 | 453 | 10th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 305 | 6.6 |
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