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MORRISON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6800671 · 1 · UNCOMPAHGRE RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:06 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 1876-05-05 — 4th most senior of the 1293 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: PORTLAND CAVE DIVERSION (1876-05-01). Immediately behind: MCDONALD CUDDIGAN DITCH (1876-05-10).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9622.0 | 1876-05-05 | 1897-05-15 | 0.625 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 3 |
| 9649.0 | 1876-06-01 | 1897-05-15 | 1.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 4 |
| 10348.0 | 1878-05-01 | 1897-05-15 | 0.75 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 25 |
| 29554.09649 | 1876-06-01 | 1942-05-11 | 3.375 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 3 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA1959, CA1854, CA0939.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1959 | 1 | 1942-05-11 | S |
CA1854 | 1 | 1897-05-15 | O |
CA0939 | 2 | 1897-05-15 | 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 509 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 509 AF — 100% of that, and 8th 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 | 1,611 | 15th lowest of 15 · 316% of median | 86 | 13.3 |
| 2012 | 308 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 63 | 3.3 |
| 2013 | 160 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 53 | 3.5 |
| 2014 | 688 | 12th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 70 | 11.6 |
| 2015 | 136 | 1st lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 33 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 346 | 6th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 27 | 12.4 |
| 2017 | 137 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 27% of median | 50 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 385 | 7th lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 85 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 590 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 66 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 874 | 14th lowest of 15 · 172% of median | 114 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 598 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 80 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 612 | 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 74 | 12.0 |
| 2023 | 699 | 13th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 62 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 332 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 48 | 10.6 |
| 2025 | 509 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 103 | 6.5 |
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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4506 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 28% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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