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M & R DITCH (MEDINA NO3)
Structure dossier · WDID 7900935 · 1 · HUERFANO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:13 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.
Will it be called out?
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 1902-04-10 — 166th 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: 7900810 (1901-06-10). Immediately behind: BONHAM WELL NO 1 (1902-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19092.0 | 1902-04-10 | 1921-10-03 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 312 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 189 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 103 AF — 54% of that, and 5th 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 | 125 | 6th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 94 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 101 | 4th lowest of 15 · 53% of median | 59 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 65 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 34% of median | 46 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 224 | 11th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 129 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 209 | 10th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 132 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 252 | 14th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 161 | 1.2 |
| 2017 | 232 | 12th lowest of 15 · 123% of median | 110 | 4.6 |
| 2018 | 42 | 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 64 | 0.8 |
| 2019 | 262 | 15th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 159 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 84 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 78 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 191 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 119 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 235 | 13th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 144 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 189 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 107 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 175 | 7th lowest of 15 · 93% of median | 104 | 1.2 |
| 2025 | 103 | 5th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 63 | 1.0 |
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