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MALONEY NO 1 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300688 · 1 · SWEETWATER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:46 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
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 1893-04-10 — 145th 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: TEPE DITCH (1892-10-10). Immediately behind: IDE DITCH (1894-09-30).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20427.15806 | 1893-04-10 | 1907-12-09 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 166 |
| 33023.27528 | 1925-05-15 | 1956-02-07 | 3.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 324 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA1123, CA0466.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1123 | 1 | 1956-02-07 | S |
CA0466 | 1 | 1907-12-09 | 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 667 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 667 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 440 | 6th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 128 | 2.7 |
| 2010 | 302 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 79 | 2.3 |
| 2011 | 366 | 5th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 86 | 2.7 |
| 2012 | 167 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 64 | 1.5 |
| 2013 | 155 | 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 66 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 329 | 4th lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 48 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 1,243 | 15th lowest of 15 · 186% of median | 142 | 8.2 |
| 2016 | 984 | 12th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 148 | 6.9 |
| 2017 | 979 | 11th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 121 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 697 | 10th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | 119 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 1,060 | 13th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 67 | 13.5 |
| 2020 | 667 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 164 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 608 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 75 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 1,131 | 14th lowest of 15 · 170% of median | 117 | 8.0 |
| 2024 | 667 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 129 | 3.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 4914 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 47% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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