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MISSOURI DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6000697 · 1 · PROSPECT CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:00 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 1889-07-01 — 792nd 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: MILL CREEK DITCH NO 1 (1889-07-01). Immediately behind: PROSPECT NO 2 DITCH (1889-07-01).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30604.14427 | 1889-07-01 | 1939-11-01 | 1.25 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRAUGEVPRCH | 220 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 56 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 80 AF — 143% of that, and 13th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 43 | 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 85 | 0.5 |
| 2000 | 49 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 72 | 0.4 |
| 2001 | 79 | 12th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 140 | 0.4 |
| 2013 | 222 | 15th lowest of 15 · 396% of median | 155 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 56 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 85 | 0.4 |
| 2015 | 54 | 7th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 117 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 63 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 134 | 0.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 75 | 0.1 |
| 2018 | 3 | 1st lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 27 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 49 | 5th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 130 | 0.3 |
| 2020 | 33 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 101 | 0.3 |
| 2021 | 66 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 131 | 0.4 |
| 2022 | 75 | 11th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 163 | 0.3 |
| 2023 | 82 | 14th lowest of 15 · 146% of median | 144 | 0.4 |
| 2024 | 80 | 13th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 165 | 0.5 |
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