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CHAVEZ DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 2900561 · 1 · SAN JUAN RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:30 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1948-05-31 — 247th most senior of the 853 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: HARRIS BROS BOONE RES 2 (1947-07-12). Immediately behind: COWDEN DITCH (1948-09-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 35945.0 | 1948-05-31 | 1962-04-19 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #336 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 0 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2016, came in at 0 AF — —% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 60 | 14th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 44 | 1.0 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 15 | 0.0 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 17 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 19 | 0.0 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 16 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 13 | 0.0 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 13 | 0.0 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 12 | 0.0 |
| 2010 | 260 | 15th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 90 | 3.0 |
| 2011 | 46 | 13th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 52 | 0.6 |
| 2012 | 13 | 12th lowest of 15 · —% of median | 50 | 0.2 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 14 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 7 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · —% of median | 8 | 0.0 |
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