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H M S RELOCATED DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5300767 · 1 · SWEETWATER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:12 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 1902-09-17 — 158th 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: C J GUSTAFSON DITCH (1902-09-09). Immediately behind: E E RUNDELL DITCH (1902-12-15).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20427.19252 | 1902-09-17 | 1907-12-09 | 11.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 183 |
| 35205.0 | 1946-05-22 | 1956-02-07 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 350 |
| 37753.0 | 1953-05-13 | 1956-02-07 | 6.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 396 |
| 59645.0 | 2013-04-20 | 2007-12-31 | 0.0 | 2.67 | C | OTH | 396 |
Legal record & documents
7 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
07CW0258, CA1123, CA1145, CA1138.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
07CW0258 | 1 | 2007-12-31 | S |
CA1123 | 4 | 1956-02-07 | S |
CA1145 | 1 | 1907-12-09 | S |
CA1138 | 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 1,656 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 532 AF — 32% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,438 | 5th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 79 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 1,617 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 87 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 2,323 | 9th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 106 | 14.2 |
| 2013 | 1,345 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 75 | 11.3 |
| 2014 | 1,651 | 7th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 69 | 12.2 |
| 2015 | 2,636 | 11th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 144 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 2,442 | 10th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 208 | 9.2 |
| 2017 | 3,357 | 13th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 166 | 15.8 |
| 2018 | 1,656 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 110 | 12.6 |
| 2019 | 569 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 107 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 3,506 | 14th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | 156 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 3,123 | 12th lowest of 15 · 189% of median | 168 | 14.1 |
| 2023 | 3,513 | 15th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | 148 | 14.0 |
| 2024 | 532 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 32% of median | 43 | 6.7 |
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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 5942 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 56% 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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