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MARTIN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7900538 · 1 · HUERFANO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:48 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 1862-07-15 — 4th most senior of the 930 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: BO BOYCE DITCH (1862-05-15). Immediately behind: JOHN W BROWN DITCH (1863-04-01).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4579.0 | 1862-07-15 | 1889-06-12 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRCOMINDFIRAUGRCH | 4 |
| 5935.0 | 1866-04-01 | 1889-06-12 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRCOMINDFIRAUGRCH | 11 |
| 14441.0 | 1889-07-15 | 1898-02-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | STOIRRCOMINDFIRAUGRCH |
Legal record & documents
9 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
16CW3074, 02/23/1898, 06/12/1889.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
16CW3074 | 6 | 1898-02-23 | O, S |
02/23/1898 | 1 | 1898-02-23 | S |
06/12/1889 | 2 | 1889-06-12 | O |
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 1,019 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1,186 AF — 116% of that, and 11th 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 | 905 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 201 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 737 | 1st lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 188 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 1,019 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 214 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 1,040 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 212 | 3.6 |
| 2015 | 1,143 | 10th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 194 | 4.8 |
| 2016 | 1,288 | 13th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 240 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 1,626 | 15th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | 278 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 826 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 218 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 1,219 | 12th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 221 | 3.6 |
| 2020 | 837 | 4th lowest of 15 · 82% of median | 200 | 3.2 |
| 2021 | 857 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 194 | 3.3 |
| 2022 | 888 | 6th lowest of 15 · 87% of median | 197 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 818 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 185 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 1,363 | 14th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 278 | 4.1 |
| 2025 | 1,186 | 11th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 280 | 5.2 |
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 (8/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 11776 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 50% of the irrigation seasons in 1915-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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