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VILLARREAL DITCH AND PL

Structure dossier · WDID 2900742 · 7 · SAN JUAN RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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.

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 1964-10-20 — 349th 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: GIRARDIN DITCH (1964-06-12). Immediately behind: POWER LINE DITCH (1965-05-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
41931.01964-10-201968-12-19 2.00.0 CIRRDOM 68-219

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 27 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2014, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
1982 24 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median 74 0.2
1983 56 11th lowest of 15 · 207% of median 126 0.2
1984 129 13th lowest of 15 · 478% of median 66 2.0
1986 139 14th lowest of 15 · 515% of median 65 2.0
1987 210 15th lowest of 15 · 778% of median 69 2.0
1988 34 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median 44 0.8
1989 74 12th lowest of 15 · 274% of median 71 1.0
1990 28 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median 59 0.4
1991 27 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 41 0.5
2009 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 1 0.0
2010 16 6th lowest of 15 · 59% of median 41 0.2
2011 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 17 0.0
2012 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 14 0.0
2013 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 12 0.0
2014 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 5 0.0

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