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MULE SPRING DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 7200804 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:21 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.

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 1920-10-01 — 450th 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: BULL BASIN NO 1 RES (1920-07-10). Immediately behind: GEARHART KOCH DITCH (1921-06-27).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
30895.258411920-10-011941-07-25 4.160.0 CIRR

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 239 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2019, came in at 480 AF — 201% of that, and 12th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1999 166 4th lowest of 15 · 70% of median 54 3.6
2000 239 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 81 2.0
2001 196 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 74 2.0
2002 251 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median 34 5.0
2003 36 2nd lowest of 15 · 15% of median 184 0.1
2005 187 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 89 2.0
2009 116 3rd lowest of 15 · 48% of median 64 1.0
2010 349 10th lowest of 15 · 146% of median 112 2.0
2011 223 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median 96 2.5
2013 14 1st lowest of 15 · 6% of median 15 0.5
2014 416 11th lowest of 15 · 174% of median 124 4.2
2015 940 14th lowest of 15 · 393% of median 154 4.2
2016 564 13th lowest of 15 · 236% of median 154 4.2
2017 1,178 15th lowest of 15 · 493% of median 165 4.2
2019 480 12th lowest of 15 · 201% of median 140 2.6

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