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CHEENEY NO 1 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2800524 · 1 · TOMICHI CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:46 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 1876-05-15 — 32nd most senior of the 1505 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: POLE ROAD DITCH (1874-12-22). Immediately behind: HEAD AND CORTAY NO 4 D (1876-05-15).
Decreed rights (6)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16192.09632 | 1876-05-15 | 1904-04-29 | 0.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 26 |
| 16192.11475 | 1881-06-01 | 1904-04-29 | 0.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 16192.12858 | 1885-03-15 | 1904-04-29 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 77 |
| 28311.09632 | 1876-05-15 | 1943-04-19 | 2.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 196 |
| 28311.11475 | 1881-06-01 | 1943-04-19 | 1.6 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 28311.12858 | 1885-03-15 | 1943-04-19 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 241 |
Legal record & documents
8 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
W3415, CA2079, CA1266.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W3415 | 4 | 1943-04-19 | S |
CA2079 | 2 | 1943-04-19 | S |
CA1266 | 2 | 1904-04-29 | 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 166 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 157 AF — 95% of that, and 7th 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 | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 10 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 25 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 30 | 0.5 |
| 2014 | 51 | 4th lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 74 | 0.3 |
| 2015 | 398 | 12th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 40 | 5.3 |
| 2016 | 542 | 14th lowest of 15 · 326% of median | 68 | 4.6 |
| 2017 | 125 | 5th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 113 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 539 | 13th lowest of 15 · 325% of median | 104 | 6.7 |
| 2019 | 584 | 15th lowest of 15 · 352% of median | 136 | 6.0 |
| 2020 | 385 | 11th lowest of 15 · 232% of median | 80 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 287 | 9th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 149 | 1.0 |
| 2022 | 166 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 93 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 334 | 10th lowest of 15 · 201% of median | 66 | 2.8 |
| 2024 | 131 | 6th lowest of 15 · 79% of median | 72 | 1.0 |
| 2025 | 157 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 67 | 2.3 |
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 (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 | 6 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 4212 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 36% of the irrigation seasons in 1970-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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