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SCHAEFERMEYER DITCH 1
Structure dossier · WDID 0801266 · DITCH · JARRE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 00:07 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
● Fully called out — call at NEVADA DITCH (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1865-12-30).
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 1888-04-08 — 795th 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: 0805667 (1876-04-01). Immediately behind: 0801267 (1888-04-08).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14672.13978 | 1888-04-08 | 1904-05-23 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
05/23/1904.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
05/23/1904 | 1 | 1904-05-23 | 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 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 56 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2023, came in at 4 AF — 7% of that, and 2nd 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 105 | 11th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 47 | 2.0 |
| 1995 | 127 | 12th lowest of 15 · 227% of median | 33 | 2.0 |
| 1996 | 33 | 7th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 35 | 0.5 |
| 1997 | 377 | 15th lowest of 15 · 673% of median | 96 | 2.0 |
| 1998 | 271 | 14th lowest of 15 · 484% of median | 92 | 1.5 |
| 1999 | 169 | 13th lowest of 15 · 302% of median | 87 | 1.0 |
| 2005 | 22 | 6th lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 26 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 10 | 4th lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 24 | 0.3 |
| 2008 | 8 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 30 | 0.2 |
| 2009 | 73 | 9th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 66 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 76 | 10th lowest of 15 · 136% of median | 80 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 56 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 88 | 0.6 |
| 2021 | 14 | 5th lowest of 15 · 25% of median | 22 | 0.4 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 4 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 304 | 0.2 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-5 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.010).
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 | 1655 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 16% of the irrigation seasons in 1974-2023 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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