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M B & A DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6200670 · 1 · CEBOLLA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:00 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 1882-06-30 — 26th most senior of the 1980 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: RUDOLPH IRG DITCH (1882-06-20). Immediately behind: SOUTH BEAVER CREEK DITCH (1882-07-01).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11869.0 | 1882-06-30 | 1904-03-28 | 2.87 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 28 |
| 12205.0 | 1883-06-01 | 1904-03-28 | 1.83 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 37 |
| 27585.11859 | 1882-06-20 | 1941-04-21 | 8.13 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 185 |
| 27585.26024 | 1921-04-02 | 1941-04-21 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 306 |
| 33358.0 | 1941-05-01 | 1960-03-30 | 14.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 460 |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
CA6981, CA4742, CA1319, 02CW0068.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA6981 | 1 | 1960-03-30 | S |
CA4742 | 2 | 1941-04-21 | S |
CA1319 | 1 | 1904-03-28 | O |
02CW0068 | 1 | 1904-03-28 | 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 1,876 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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 | 2,884 | 14th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 108 | 24.0 |
| 2011 | 1,876 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 64 | 21.2 |
| 2012 | 1,827 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 78 | 12.4 |
| 2013 | 2,537 | 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 96 | 15.5 |
| 2014 | 2,159 | 10th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 90 | 21.8 |
| 2015 | 111 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 60 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 1,279 | 4th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 81 | 17.5 |
| 2018 | 1,968 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 141 | 18.1 |
| 2019 | 3,475 | 15th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 74 | 37.0 |
| 2020 | 2,436 | 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 125 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 1,301 | 5th lowest of 15 · 69% of median | 47 | 16.0 |
| 2022 | 1,800 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 87 | 16.5 |
| 2023 | 1,166 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 93 | 12.6 |
| 2024 | 2,470 | 12th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 94 | 18.1 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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 (7/10 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 | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3791 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 34% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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