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CARVER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 1600790 · 1 · WAHATOYA CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:43 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 1877-05-15 — 95th most senior of the 1044 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: HIGHLAND DITCH (1876-06-01). Immediately behind: CF&I WELL NO 3 16310 (1878-12-31).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9997.0 | 1877-05-15 | 1889-06-12 | 0.7 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 52 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 17 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 30 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 42 | 9th lowest of 15 · 247% of median | 62 | 0.8 |
| 2013 | 17 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 46 | 0.7 |
| 2014 | 53 | 10th lowest of 15 · 312% of median | 76 | 0.8 |
| 2015 | 84 | 15th lowest of 15 · 494% of median | 88 | 0.8 |
| 2016 | 53 | 10th lowest of 15 · 312% of median | 76 | 0.8 |
| 2017 | 69 | 13th lowest of 15 · 406% of median | 84 | 0.8 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 49 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 75 | 14th lowest of 15 · 441% of median | 91 | 0.8 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 47 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 68 | 12th lowest of 15 · 400% of median | 81 | 0.8 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 40 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
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