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MILTON WHITE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5900639 · 1 · OHIO CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 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.
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 1933-07-02 — 731st 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: KUNZE DITCH (1931-07-01). Immediately behind: BIG SOAP PARK DITCH (1934-06-15).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30667.30498 | 1933-07-02 | 1941-04-29 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 467 |
| 56613.5656 | 2004-11-08 | 2005-12-31 | 0.68 | 0.0 | C | STO |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 384 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 726 AF — 189% of that, and 12th 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 | 1,000 | 14th lowest of 15 · 260% of median | 147 | 6.6 |
| 2012 | 308 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 75 | 3.8 |
| 2013 | 1,062 | 15th lowest of 15 · 277% of median | 181 | 7.0 |
| 2014 | 956 | 13th lowest of 15 · 249% of median | 142 | 14.3 |
| 2015 | 369 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 139 | 2.0 |
| 2016 | 433 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 190 | 2.4 |
| 2017 | 277 | 1st lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 136 | 2.3 |
| 2018 | 375 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 112 | 5.7 |
| 2019 | 641 | 11th lowest of 15 · 167% of median | 164 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 347 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 170 | 1.9 |
| 2021 | 384 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 175 | 2.3 |
| 2022 | 362 | 4th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 169 | 2.0 |
| 2023 | 363 | 5th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 167 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 515 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 172 | 2.7 |
| 2025 | 726 | 12th lowest of 15 · 189% of median | 171 | 5.9 |
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