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DAVIS DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 1300761 · 1 · HORN CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:37 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.
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 1874-06-10 — 152nd most senior of the 1017 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: OELRICH DITCH (1874-06-10). Immediately behind: DIEZ DITCH (1874-06-15).
Decreed rights (5)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8927.0 | 1874-06-10 | 1896-03-12 | 0.42 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 94A |
| 8929.0 | 1874-06-12 | 1896-03-12 | 0.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 94B |
| 8930.0 | 1874-06-13 | 1896-03-12 | 0.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 94C |
| 9100.0 | 1874-11-30 | 1896-03-12 | 1.1 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 111A |
| 11479.0 | 1881-06-05 | 1896-03-12 | 0.62 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 309A |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 103 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 41 AF — 40% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 77 | 6th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 23 | 2.1 |
| 2005 | 193 | 14th lowest of 15 · 187% of median | 56 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 59 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 66 | 1.5 |
| 2007 | 338 | 15th lowest of 15 · 328% of median | 99 | 3.7 |
| 2008 | 106 | 10th lowest of 15 · 103% of median | 57 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 129 | 11th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 45 | 2.2 |
| 2010 | 23 | 1st lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 14 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 61 | 4th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 33 | 1.2 |
| 2015 | 61 | 4th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 32 | 1.1 |
| 2016 | 94 | 7th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 30 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 103 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 24 | 2.6 |
| 2019 | 181 | 13th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 43 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 105 | 9th lowest of 15 · 102% of median | 38 | 1.7 |
| 2023 | 137 | 12th lowest of 15 · 133% of median | 51 | 1.5 |
| 2024 | 41 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 16 | 1.5 |
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