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MEADOW DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 8000776 · DITCH · CRAIG CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (e70d0b5) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Current administration
● In priority — no active call senior to this structure's rights affects its district (23 active call(s) checked).
Which of its rights get 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 1881-06-01 — 633rd most senior of the 21881 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: 8000753 (1881-05-11). Immediately behind: 8000785 (1881-06-01).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11475.0 | 1881-06-01 | 1913-05-22 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 107 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 85 AF — 79% of that, and 3rd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 131 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 69 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 151 | 13th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 78 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 65 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 56 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 91 | 5th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 48 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 131 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 69 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 50 | 1st lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 27 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 107 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 55 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 175 | 15th lowest of 15 · 164% of median | 91 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 107 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 55 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 163 | 14th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 83 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 131 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 67 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 101 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 52 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 97 | 6th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 74 | 0.8 |
| 2023 | 87 | 4th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 61 | 0.8 |
| 2024 | 85 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 62 | 0.8 |
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