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MULFORD LATERAL DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5101118 · 1 · COLORADO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:18 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 1968-06-17 — 805th 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: HURD CREEK RANCH PL NO 2 (1967-08-08). Immediately behind: CHILDRESS WELL (1970-02-26).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43829.43267 | 1968-06-17 | 1970-12-31 | 1.233 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
W0037, 25CW3147.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0037 | 2 | 1970-12-31 | S |
25CW3147 | 1 | 1970-12-31 | 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 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 142 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 245 AF — 172% of that, and 9th lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 166 | 8th lowest of 10 · 117% of median | 72 | 1.2 |
| 1992 | 87 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 61% of median | 45 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 101 | 4th lowest of 10 · 71% of median | 68 | 0.8 |
| 1994 | 93 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 66% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 139 | 5th lowest of 10 · 98% of median | 62 | 1.6 |
| 1997 | 145 | 6th lowest of 10 · 102% of median | 62 | 1.2 |
| 1999 | 55 | 1st lowest of 10 · 39% of median | 93 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 162 | 7th lowest of 10 · 114% of median | 100 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 331 | 10th lowest of 10 · 233% of median | 184 | 2.4 |
| 2024 | 245 | 9th lowest of 10 · 172% of median | 70 | 3.1 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 10 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 804 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 11% of the irrigation seasons in 1991-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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