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Structure dossier · WDID 7204719 · 1 · MIDDLETON CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:36 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 1894-05-01 — 123rd 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: BIG CREEK RESERVOIR NO 4 (1893-09-24). Immediately behind: COTTONWOOD LAKES RES 1 (1894-07-24).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18749.16192 | 1894-05-01 | 1905-10-14 | 2.88 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 22995.21926 | 1910-01-12 | 1916-06-01 | 0.12 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA9995, CA2635, CA1222.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA9995 | 2 | 1916-06-01 | S |
CA2635 | 1 | 1916-06-01 | S |
CA1222 | 1 | 1905-10-14 | 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 203 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 227 AF — 112% of that, and 7th lowest of the 11 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 152 | 4th lowest of 11 · 75% of median | — | 56 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 299 | 8th lowest of 11 · 147% of median | — | 68 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | — | no recorded volume | 144 | 0 | — |
| 2003 | — | no recorded volume | 124 | 0 | — |
| 2005 | 434 | 11th lowest of 11 · 214% of median | — | 68 | 4.0 |
| 2006 | 407 | 10th lowest of 11 · 200% of median | — | 72 | 3.5 |
| 2007 | 163 | 5th lowest of 11 · 80% of median | — | 48 | 2.0 |
| 2008 | — | no recorded volume | 211 | 0 | — |
| 2009 | — | no recorded volume | 353 | 0 | — |
| 2013 | 22 | 2nd lowest of 11 · 11% of median | — | 93 | 0.1 |
| 2015 | 48 | 3rd lowest of 11 · 24% of median | — | 70 | 0.3 |
| 2021 | 2 | 1st lowest of 11 · 1% of median | — | 4 | 0.4 |
| 2022 | 326 | 9th lowest of 11 · 161% of median | — | 71 | 3.0 |
| 2023 | 203 | 6th lowest of 11 · 100% of median | — | 40 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 227 | 7th lowest of 11 · 112% of median | — | 56 | 2.9 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 11 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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 2088 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 18% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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