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MONSON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100803 · 1 · LITTLE MUDDY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:47 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.
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 1885-12-03 — 177th 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: FARRIS DITCH (1885-09-01). Immediately behind: BUNTE NO 2 DITCH (1886-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20676.13121 | 1885-12-03 | 1911-08-03 | 1.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 162 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 129 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 139 AF — 108% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 70 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 54 | 1.2 |
| 2005 | 87 | 4th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 44 | 1.5 |
| 2006 | 120 | 6th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 49 | 1.4 |
| 2007 | 134 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 46 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 168 | 13th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 48 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 74 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 32 | 1.2 |
| 2010 | 123 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 55 | 1.5 |
| 2011 | 129 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 37 | 1.8 |
| 2012 | 97 | 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 45 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 173 | 14th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 61 | 1.8 |
| 2014 | 139 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 53 | 1.9 |
| 2015 | 154 | 12th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 60 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 54 | 1st lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 23 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 292 | 15th lowest of 15 · 226% of median | 69 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 139 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 45 | 3.0 |
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