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MURRAY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200805 · 1 · GROVE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:43 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 1888-08-24 — 75th 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: WILLOW CREEK DITCH (1888-08-15). Immediately behind: BERTHOLF LANHAM UPDIKE D (1888-08-30).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14116.0 | 1888-08-24 | 1890-02-07 | 1.72 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 60 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 448 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 426 AF — 95% of that, and 7th 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 | 798 | 15th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 276 | 1.9 |
| 2011 | 423 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 121 | 2.2 |
| 2012 | 546 | 13th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 193 | 2.2 |
| 2013 | 401 | 5th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 144 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 255 | 1st lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 107 | 1.7 |
| 2015 | 636 | 14th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 203 | 2.2 |
| 2016 | 450 | 9th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 135 | 2.1 |
| 2017 | 456 | 10th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 147 | 1.8 |
| 2018 | 469 | 11th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 156 | 1.7 |
| 2019 | 490 | 12th lowest of 15 · 109% of median | 160 | 2.0 |
| 2020 | 448 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 176 | 2.1 |
| 2021 | 325 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 162 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 391 | 4th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 130 | 1.8 |
| 2023 | 376 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 115 | 2.2 |
| 2024 | 426 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 136 | 2.0 |
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