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MOORLAND DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7300537 · 1 · COATES CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:21 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1886-11-26 — 17th most senior of the 221 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: COOK IRRIGATING DITCH (1886-11-26). Immediately behind: COOK IRRIGATING DITCH ALTERNATE POINT (1886-11-26).
Decreed rights (9)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22848.13479 | 1886-11-26 | 1916-06-01 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 22848.22088 | 1910-06-23 | 1916-06-01 | 5.76 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 319 |
| 30895.24866 | 1918-01-30 | 1941-07-25 | 4.28 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 501 |
| 30895.29144 | 1929-10-17 | 1941-07-25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 568 |
| 31836.0 | 1937-03-01 | 1941-07-25 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 601 |
| 35560.0 | 1947-05-12 | 1959-07-21 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 792 |
| 35567.0 | 1947-05-19 | 1959-07-21 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 794 |
| 44559.3628 | 1949-05-01 | 1972-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 48212.22088 | 1910-06-23 | 1982-12-31 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | STK |
Legal record & documents
11 decreed actions on record across
8 court cases:
82CW0004, W1493, W3033, CA8303, 75CW0341, CA5812, CA2635, 81CW0300.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
82CW0004 | 1 | 1982-12-31 | S |
W1493 | 1 | 1972-12-31 | S |
W3033 | 3 | 1959-07-21 | S |
CA8303 | 2 | 1959-07-21 | S |
75CW0341 | 1 | 1959-07-21 | S |
CA5812 | 1 | 1941-07-25 | S |
CA2635 | 1 | 1916-06-01 | S |
81CW0300 | 1 | 1916-06-01 | 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 156 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 58 AF — 37% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 641 | 13th lowest of 15 · 411% of median | 124 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 156 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 48 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 153 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 79 | 1.6 |
| 2014 | 120 | 6th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 74 | 1.3 |
| 2015 | 12 | 1st lowest of 15 · 8% of median | 27 | 0.4 |
| 2016 | 793 | 14th lowest of 15 · 508% of median | 95 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 452 | 12th lowest of 15 · 290% of median | 117 | 7.4 |
| 2018 | 47 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 30% of median | 48 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 1,434 | 15th lowest of 15 · 919% of median | 140 | 13.8 |
| 2020 | 211 | 10th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 149 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 100 | 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 68 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 296 | 11th lowest of 15 · 190% of median | 67 | 8.2 |
| 2023 | 188 | 9th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 105 | 1.2 |
| 2024 | 100 | 4th lowest of 15 · 64% of median | 73 | 1.2 |
| 2025 | 58 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 75 | 0.9 |
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 | 9 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3555 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 33% of the irrigation seasons in 1975-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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