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B W FIELDS MULE CREEK NO 1 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100514 · 1 · MULE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:23 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 1889-05-31 — 191st most senior of the 2208 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: TERRELL NO 1 DITCH (1889-05-01). Immediately behind: LANGHOLEN NO 3 DITCH (1889-09-30).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.14396 | 1889-05-31 | 1911-08-03 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDFIRDOMAUGTMX | 181 |
| 54345.0 | 1998-10-16 | 1998-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRRECFISAUGWLD |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
98CW0293, 98CW0292, 07CW0153, CA0183, 96CW3681.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
98CW0293 | 1 | 1998-12-31 | S |
98CW0292 | 2 | 1998-12-31 | S |
07CW0153 | 1 | 1998-12-31 | S |
CA0183 | 1 | 1911-08-03 | S |
96CW3681 | 2 | 1911-08-03 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 166 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2008, came in at 17 AF — 10% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 554 | 14th lowest of 15 · 334% of median | 154 | 2.5 |
| 1994 | 303 | 12th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 96 | 2.5 |
| 1995 | 350 | 13th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 82 | 3.3 |
| 1996 | 223 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 66 | 2.5 |
| 1997 | 195 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 52 | 2.5 |
| 1998 | 166 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 57 | 2.0 |
| 1999 | 228 | 11th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 64 | 2.5 |
| 2000 | 118 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 72 | 2.1 |
| 2001 | 130 | 7th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 57 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 122 | 6th lowest of 15 · 74% of median | 52 | 1.4 |
| 2004 | 71 | 4th lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 62 | 0.9 |
| 2005 | 557 | 15th lowest of 15 · 336% of median | 182 | 2.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 50 | 0.1 |
| 2007 | 21 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 28 | 0.4 |
| 2008 | 17 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 22 | 0.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-22 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.001).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2277 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 33% of the irrigation seasons in 1976-2008 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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