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MONUMENT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200798 · 1 · COLORADO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:28 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 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 1925-09-11 — 464th 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: JOHN A FITZPATRICK DITCH (1925-05-04). Immediately behind: MESA LAKES RANGER STA PL (1926-07-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30895.27647 | 1925-09-11 | 1941-07-25 | 0.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 34419.28244 | 1927-05-01 | 1959-07-21 | 3.1 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,006 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 1,006 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 903 | 4th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 298 | 3.0 |
| 2007 | 896 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 237 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 1,210 | 10th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 278 | 3.0 |
| 2009 | 770 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 76% of median | 253 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 2,577 | 15th lowest of 15 · 256% of median | 310 | 4.6 |
| 2011 | 1,571 | 13th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 232 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 505 | 1st lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 218 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 983 | 6th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 191 | 4.0 |
| 2014 | 972 | 5th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 170 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 1,322 | 12th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 225 | 4.0 |
| 2016 | 1,814 | 14th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 296 | 4.0 |
| 2017 | 1,136 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 166 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 1,320 | 11th lowest of 15 · 131% of median | 188 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 996 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 150 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 1,006 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 180 | 4.0 |
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