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MEDINA FELIPA DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7900543 · 1 · HUERFANO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:12 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 1867-06-01 — 22nd 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: MONTEZ DITCH (1867-04-25). Immediately behind: MEDINA DITCH NO 3 (1867-06-01).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6361.0 | 1867-06-01 | 1889-06-12 | 0.3334 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 23 |
| 8522.0 | 1873-05-01 | 1889-06-12 | 2.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 50 |
| 13624.0 | 1887-04-20 | 1889-06-12 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 89 |
| 13983.0 | 1888-04-13 | 1889-06-12 | 0.9 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 96 |
| 14408.06361 | 1867-06-01 | 1898-02-23 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 15 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 217 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 50 AF — 23% of that, and 6th 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 | 11 | 4th lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 53 | 0.3 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 32 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 13 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 9 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 4% of median | 26 | 0.6 |
| 2015 | 258 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 63 | 3.3 |
| 2016 | 326 | 12th lowest of 15 · 150% of median | 176 | 4.3 |
| 2017 | 252 | 9th lowest of 15 · 116% of median | 96 | 3.4 |
| 2018 | 38 | 5th lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 93 | 0.4 |
| 2019 | 446 | 14th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 213 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 68 | 7th lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 96 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 375 | 13th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 96 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 217 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 134 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 263 | 11th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 91 | 5.8 |
| 2024 | 557 | 15th lowest of 15 · 257% of median | 197 | 5.3 |
| 2025 | 50 | 6th lowest of 15 · 23% of median | 73 | 0.5 |
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