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ZEIGEL MEADOWS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7200953 · 1 · PLATEAU CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:51 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 1950-06-01 — 627th 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: UNFRED DITCH (1950-05-01). Immediately behind: DETENTION RESERVOIR (1950-06-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36676.0 | 1950-06-01 | 1959-07-21 | 5.21 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA8303.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA8303 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | S |
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 415 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2013, came in at 118 AF — 28% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 140 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 63 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 985 | 12th lowest of 15 · 237% of median | 101 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 784 | 10th lowest of 15 · 189% of median | 77 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 651 | 9th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 64 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 382 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 36 | 5.5 |
| 1998 | 1,340 | 15th lowest of 15 · 323% of median | 137 | 5.2 |
| 1999 | 1,025 | 13th lowest of 15 · 247% of median | 106 | 5.2 |
| 2003 | 261 | 5th lowest of 15 · 63% of median | 71 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 415 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 42 | 5.1 |
| 2005 | 1,267 | 14th lowest of 15 · 305% of median | 183 | 5.0 |
| 2006 | 250 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 37 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 820 | 11th lowest of 15 · 198% of median | 104 | 6.0 |
| 2009 | 407 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 109 | 2.5 |
| 2010 | 224 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 67 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 118 | 1st lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 35 | 2.0 |
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1726 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 20% of the irrigation seasons in 1972-2013 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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