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MILLER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800779 · 1 · MILLER CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:23 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 1896-05-29 — 205th 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: HIGHLINE DITCH (1896-05-29). Immediately behind: MURPHY DITCH (1895-10-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 139 |
| 59535.59312 | 2012-05-22 | 2013-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | OTH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 8 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 54 AF — 675% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 77 | 13th lowest of 15 · 962% of median | 33 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 21 | 9th lowest of 15 · 262% of median | 9 | 1.5 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 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 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 53 | 10th lowest of 15 · 662% of median | 34 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 709 | 15th lowest of 15 · 8862% of median | 90 | 4.2 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2022 | 8 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 16 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 92 | 14th lowest of 15 · 1150% of median | 61 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 76 | 12th lowest of 15 · 950% of median | 44 | 2.6 |
| 2025 | 54 | 11th lowest of 15 · 675% of median | 29 | 1.1 |
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