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DENIO TAYLOR DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 0500548 · 1 · SAINT VRAIN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:04 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 1862-04-15 — 34th most senior of the 1289 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: LONGMONT SUPPLY DITCH (1862-04-15). Immediately behind: NIWOT DITCH (1862-04-15).
Decreed rights (13)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4488.0 | 1862-04-15 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 4518.0 | 1862-05-15 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 4657.0 | 1862-10-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 4853.0 | 1863-04-15 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNCOMINDRECFISFIRDOMAUGPWR | |
| 5675.0 | 1865-07-15 | 1882-06-02 | 22.62 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 6339.0 | 1867-05-10 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | MUN | |
| 6339.0 | 1867-05-10 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 6756.0 | 1868-06-30 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8034.0 | 1871-12-30 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 8689.0 | 1873-10-15 | 1882-06-02 | 6.78 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 9283.0 | 1875-06-01 | 1882-06-02 | 11.78 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 9953.0 | 1877-04-01 | 1882-06-02 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | MUN | |
| 11841.08689 | 1873-10-15 | 1907-03-13 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IND |
Legal record & documents
16 decreed actions on record across
8 court cases:
89CW0073, 89CW0056, 84CW0298A, CA1379, CA1617, 07CW0330, 01CW0188, 00CW0239.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
89CW0073 | 2 | 1989-12-31 | S |
89CW0056 | 1 | 1989-12-31 | S |
84CW0298A | 1 | 1984-12-31 | S |
CA1379 | 3 | 1907-03-13 | O, S |
CA1617 | 1 | 1882-06-02 | O |
07CW0330 | 1 | 1882-06-02 | O |
01CW0188 | 4 | 1882-06-02 | O |
00CW0239 | 3 | 1882-06-02 | O |
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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 741 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,036 AF — 140% of that, and 14th 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 | 406 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 122 | 6.1 |
| 2011 | 1,019 | 13th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 207 | 8.2 |
| 2012 | 735 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 154 | 7.6 |
| 2013 | 696 | 4th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 112 | 6.7 |
| 2014 | 1,016 | 12th lowest of 15 · 137% of median | 184 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 731 | 6th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 193 | 4.8 |
| 2016 | 399 | 1st lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 101 | 5.7 |
| 2017 | 1,316 | 15th lowest of 15 · 178% of median | 194 | 5.8 |
| 2018 | 724 | 5th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 141 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 896 | 10th lowest of 15 · 121% of median | 178 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 634 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 157 | 4.8 |
| 2021 | 741 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 154 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 879 | 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 179 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 933 | 11th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 191 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 1,036 | 14th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 161 | 6.6 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 13 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 10125 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 64% of the irrigation seasons in 1950-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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