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MILNER SPRING CK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5700568 · 1 · MILNER SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:15 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 1901-06-01 — 74th most senior of the 1003 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: MILNER CLARK GULCH D (1901-06-01). Immediately behind: WHETSTONE FEEDER DITCH 1 (1902-05-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19621.18779 | 1901-06-01 | 1903-09-28 | 0.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 67B |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 21 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 20 AF — 95% of that, and 7th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 15 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 122 | 0.1 |
| 2005 | 18 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 91 | 0.1 |
| 2006 | 26 | 10th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 123 | 0.2 |
| 2007 | 36 | 12th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 184 | 0.2 |
| 2008 | 25 | 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 93 | 0.2 |
| 2011 | 85 | 15th lowest of 15 · 405% of median | 107 | 0.5 |
| 2017 | 21 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 75 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 6 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 28 | 0.1 |
| 2019 | 36 | 12th lowest of 15 · 171% of median | 136 | 0.2 |
| 2020 | 28 | 11th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 118 | 0.1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 17 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 82 | 0.1 |
| 2023 | 78 | 14th lowest of 15 · 371% of median | 147 | 0.6 |
| 2024 | 19 | 6th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 66 | 0.2 |
| 2025 | 20 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 184 | 0.1 |
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