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S D J MARTINEZ DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7900763 · 1 · YELLOWSTONE CREEK (AKA P · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:17 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 1909-05-15 — 193rd 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: R H OWENS RESERVOIR NO 2 (1908-12-11). Immediately behind: ELMIRE DITCH (1909-05-20).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21684.0 | 1909-05-15 | 1921-10-03 | 0.16 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 393 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
CA1414.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1414 | 1 | 1921-10-03 | 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 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 86 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1980, came in at 82 AF — 96% of that, and 3rd lowest of the 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 187 | 6th lowest of 6 · 219% of median | 103 | 1.0 |
| 1969 | 122 | 5th lowest of 6 · 143% of median | 103 | 1.0 |
| 1970 | 75 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 88% of median | 58 | 1.0 |
| 1973 | 89 | 4th lowest of 6 · 104% of median | 92 | 1.0 |
| 1977 | 22 | 1st lowest of 6 · 26% of median | 18 | 1.0 |
| 1980 | 82 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 96% of median | 50 | 1.0 |
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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 424 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 13% of the irrigation seasons in 1965-1980 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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