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MEDINA DITCH NO 3

Structure dossier · WDID 7900545 · 1 · HUERFANO RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:06 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 — 23rd 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: MEDINA FELIPA DITCH (1867-06-01). Immediately behind: RAHN DITCH (MEDINA NO2) (1867-06-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
6361.01867-06-011889-06-12 1.00.0 CIRR 23

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 307 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1999, came in at 79 AF — 26% of that, and 2nd lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1985 709 15th lowest of 15 · 231% of median 167 3.6
1986 442 13th lowest of 15 · 144% of median 107 4.0
1987 540 14th lowest of 15 · 176% of median 148 2.0
1988 421 10th lowest of 15 · 137% of median 128 2.0
1989 436 12th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 127 2.0
1990 252 6th lowest of 15 · 82% of median 132 2.2
1991 142 3rd lowest of 15 · 46% of median 93 1.6
1992 307 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 165 1.0
1993 342 9th lowest of 15 · 111% of median 114 2.4
1994 282 7th lowest of 15 · 92% of median 159 1.0
1995 435 11th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 187 2.0
1996 71 1st lowest of 15 · 23% of median 59 5.0
1997 231 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median 129 1.0
1998 167 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median 105 1.0
1999 79 2nd lowest of 15 · 26% of median 52 3.6

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