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MAUDLIN NO 1 DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 5300695 · 1 · BLACKTAIL CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 20:43 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.

Which of its rights get called out?

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 1894-05-31 — 208th 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: BLACKTAIL DITCH (1892-12-31). Immediately behind: MAUDLIN NO 2 DITCH (1894-05-31).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
22232.162221894-05-311913-11-10 0.750.0 CIRR 219

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 27 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 31 AF — 115% of that, and 11th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2001 18 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median 50 0.2
2002 4 1st lowest of 15 · 15% of median 21 0.1
2003 12 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median 59 0.1
2004 14 4th lowest of 15 · 52% of median 70 0.1
2005 22 7th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 64 0.2
2006 29 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 59 0.2
2007 16 5th lowest of 15 · 59% of median 44 0.2
2008 39 13th lowest of 15 · 144% of median 44 0.5
2009 60 14th lowest of 15 · 222% of median 60 0.8
2010 27 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 42 0.5
2011 66 15th lowest of 15 · 244% of median 48 1.0
2012 29 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median 39 0.5
2016 35 12th lowest of 15 · 130% of median 93 0.2
2017 11 2nd lowest of 15 · 41% of median 55 0.1
2019 31 11th lowest of 15 · 115% of median 74 0.2

Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.