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MACHIN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300687 · 1 · SWEETWATER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:52 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1900-05-18 — 149th most senior of the 1231 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: BROUGHTON NO 1 DITCH (1898-03-15). Immediately behind: YOST DITCH (1900-07-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20427.184 | 1900-05-18 | 1907-12-09 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 171 |
| 38138.0 | 1954-06-02 | 1956-02-07 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 404 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 285 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 394 AF — 138% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 144 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 92 | 0.8 |
| 2009 | 248 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 128 | 1.4 |
| 2010 | 156 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 72 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 273 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 86 | 1.6 |
| 2012 | 235 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 64 | 2.2 |
| 2013 | 108 | 1st lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 45 | 1.4 |
| 2014 | 194 | 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 47 | 2.1 |
| 2015 | 514 | 14th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 80 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 569 | 15th lowest of 15 · 200% of median | 139 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 448 | 12th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 78 | 3.2 |
| 2018 | 297 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 68 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 285 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 59 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 426 | 11th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 62 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 506 | 13th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 77 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 394 | 10th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 91 | 5.3 |
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