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MEADOW DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6000687 · 1 · TABEGUACHE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:41 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 1916-05-01 — 840th most senior of the 2893 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: TILTON DITCH (1915-11-01). Immediately behind: HOLDER DITCH (1918-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30604.24227 | 1916-05-01 | 1939-11-01 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 292 |
| 30604.28053 | 1917-05-01 | 1939-11-01 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 294 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 142 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2001, came in at 67 AF — 47% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 299 | 14th lowest of 15 · 211% of median | 72 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 120 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 78 | 1.5 |
| 1989 | 158 | 11th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 128 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 39 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 28 | 0.8 |
| 1991 | 72 | 4th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 104 | 0.8 |
| 1992 | 206 | 12th lowest of 15 · 145% of median | 78 | 1.5 |
| 1993 | 142 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 83 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 138 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 79 | 1.2 |
| 1995 | 83 | 5th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 112 | 0.5 |
| 1996 | 217 | 13th lowest of 15 · 153% of median | 103 | 1.8 |
| 1997 | 339 | 15th lowest of 15 · 239% of median | 122 | 3.0 |
| 1998 | 153 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 108 | 1.2 |
| 1999 | 153 | 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 174 | 1.3 |
| 2000 | 1 | 1st lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 19 | 0.0 |
| 2001 | 67 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 85 | 0.8 |
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