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MORIN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800783 · 1 · ELK RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:59 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 1888-04-24 — 60th 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: LYON DITCH (1887-10-31). Immediately behind: EGERIA DITCH (1888-05-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13994.0 | 1888-04-24 | 1892-09-22 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | (45)46 |
| 24123.13994 | 1888-04-24 | 1916-02-03 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 46A |
| 45655.37779 | 1953-06-08 | 1975-12-31 | 11.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDRECFISDOMSTK |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
W0800-75, 02/03/1916, 09/22/1892.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0800-75 | 1 | 1975-12-31 | S |
02/03/1916 | 1 | 1916-02-03 | S |
09/22/1892 | 1 | 1892-09-22 | O |
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 3,284 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 4,484 AF — 136% of that, and 14th 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 | 3,284 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 211 | 21.0 |
| 2012 | 4,319 | 13th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 152 | 23.0 |
| 2013 | 3,993 | 11th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 134 | 22.5 |
| 2014 | 3,020 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 92 | 21.8 |
| 2015 | 1,614 | 1st lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 126 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 2,274 | 4th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 145 | 25.7 |
| 2017 | 3,324 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 134 | 25.4 |
| 2018 | 4,108 | 12th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 185 | 24.2 |
| 2019 | 2,116 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 110 | 16.2 |
| 2020 | 3,630 | 10th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 140 | 25.7 |
| 2021 | 2,816 | 5th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 194 | 20.0 |
| 2022 | 3,253 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 215 | 21.3 |
| 2023 | 2,141 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 199 | 19.1 |
| 2024 | 5,139 | 15th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 233 | 27.2 |
| 2025 | 4,484 | 14th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 295 | 21.3 |
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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 12439 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 54% of the irrigation seasons in 1918-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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