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LITTLE MUDDY CREEK DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7700554 · 1 · NAVAJO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — 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 1966-10-05 — 108th most senior of the 187 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: HIDDEN LAKE DITCH (1966-10-05). Immediately behind: MUDDY CREEK DITCH (1966-10-05).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 42646.0 | 1966-10-05 | 1968-12-19 | 15.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDRECFIRDOMSTK | 68-253 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 204 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,466 AF — 719% of that, and 15th 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 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 14 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 83 | 6th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 37 | 2.4 |
| 2013 | 73 | 4th lowest of 15 · 36% of median | 62 | 2.3 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 11 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 80 | 5th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 52 | 2.1 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 3% of median | 27 | 0.2 |
| 2017 | 204 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 76 | 2.0 |
| 2018 | 307 | 10th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 179 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 540 | 13th lowest of 15 · 265% of median | 162 | 5.3 |
| 2020 | 294 | 9th lowest of 15 · 144% of median | 95 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 496 | 12th lowest of 15 · 243% of median | 134 | 4.6 |
| 2022 | 123 | 7th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 84 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 423 | 11th lowest of 15 · 207% of median | 93 | 2.3 |
| 2024 | 846 | 14th lowest of 15 · 415% of median | 142 | 4.0 |
| 2025 | 1,466 | 15th lowest of 15 · 719% of median | 156 | 7.8 |
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