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MIDLINE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200791 · 1 · BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:48 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
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 1896-06-01 — 134th most senior of the 2166 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: ATWELL SHORT LINE DITCH (1896-06-01). Immediately behind: COTTONWOOD LAKES RES 4 (1896-08-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749.16954 | 1896-06-01 | 1905-10-14 | 2.45 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 28931.20515 | 1906-03-03 | 1934-08-03 | 4.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 34419.33723 | 1942-05-01 | 1959-07-21 | 1.71 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 156 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 192 AF — 123% of that, and 11th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 69 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 17 | 2.3 |
| 2009 | 356 | 15th lowest of 15 · 228% of median | 65 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 237 | 12th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 47 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 330 | 13th lowest of 15 · 212% of median | 97 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 76 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 49% of median | 111 | 0.4 |
| 2014 | 136 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 33 | 3.7 |
| 2015 | 346 | 14th lowest of 15 · 222% of median | 101 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 136 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 44 | 2.4 |
| 2017 | 169 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 62 | 2.2 |
| 2018 | 32 | 1st lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 12 | 2.4 |
| 2019 | 86 | 4th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 29 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 99 | 5th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 30 | 2.2 |
| 2022 | 156 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 40 | 2.2 |
| 2023 | 157 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 78 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 192 | 11th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 41 | 3.5 |
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