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MEADS DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 5900635 · 1 · BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1899-08-22 — 221st most senior of the 2360 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: MURDIE MESA IRG D MURDIE (1899-07-17). Immediately behind: MEADS NO 2 DITCH (1899-08-23).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18131.0 | 1899-08-22 | 1906-09-14 | 3.675 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 132 |
| 33356.18131 | 1899-08-22 | 1957-06-20 | 11.025 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 33356.31563 | 1936-06-01 | 1957-06-20 | 5.3 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,891 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,586 AF — 84% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,811 | 13th lowest of 15 · 149% of median | 129 | 16.9 |
| 2012 | 2,765 | 12th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 156 | 16.5 |
| 2013 | 1,783 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 88 | 22.9 |
| 2014 | 1,258 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 95 | 19.8 |
| 2015 | 3,026 | 15th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 118 | 23.9 |
| 2016 | 2,953 | 14th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 121 | 20.8 |
| 2017 | 1,555 | 5th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 63 | 23.9 |
| 2018 | 1,128 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 94 | 10.0 |
| 2019 | 961 | 1st lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 104 | 10.0 |
| 2020 | 2,291 | 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 87 | 25.1 |
| 2021 | 2,192 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 91 | 23.0 |
| 2022 | 1,891 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 84 | 16.9 |
| 2023 | 1,553 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 70 | 16.0 |
| 2024 | 2,437 | 11th lowest of 15 · 129% of median | 85 | 19.9 |
| 2025 | 1,586 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 78 | 14.5 |
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