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HARRIS MILLER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800678 · 1 · MILLER 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 1896-05-29 — 202nd most senior of the 3097 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: H P WILLIAMS D 1 (1895-05-01). Immediately behind: HAYDEN TRAIL DITCH (1896-05-29).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17798.16951 | 1896-05-29 | 1899-09-18 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 137 |
| 18448.13881 | 1888-01-02 | 1900-07-06 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 41 |
| 18448.1699 | 1896-07-07 | 1900-07-06 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 139 |
| 25750.23571 | 1914-07-15 | 1920-12-09 | 4.3 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 240AA |
| 33782.25719 | 1920-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 0.72 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 322W |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1 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 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 161 | 14th lowest of 15 · 16100% of median | 151 | 1.7 |
| 2014 | 20 | 12th lowest of 15 · 2000% of median | 28 | 0.4 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 11 | 10th lowest of 15 · 1100% of median | 28 | 0.2 |
| 2018 | 196 | 15th lowest of 15 · 19600% of median | 46 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 17 | 11th lowest of 15 · 1700% of median | 23 | 0.4 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 54 | 13th lowest of 15 · 5400% of median | 36 | 2.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 9th lowest of 15 · 500% of median | 32 | 0.2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 8 | 0.1 |
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