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DAVIGNON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3800627 · 1 · LITTLE WOODY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:09 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 1888-09-24 — 238th most senior of the 4788 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: WEST HIGHLINE DITCH (1888-06-18). Immediately behind: FLANNERY DITCH (1885-12-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14147.0 | 1888-09-24 | 1889-05-11 | 2.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 203 |
| 26388.20193 | 1905-04-15 | 1922-04-22 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 221B |
| 26414.18748 | 1901-05-01 | 1922-04-29 | 0.659 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 213C |
| 32907.31655 | 1936-09-01 | 1949-08-25 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 458 |
| 35191.0 | 1946-05-08 | 1949-08-25 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 477 |
Legal record & documents
5 decreed actions on record across
4 court cases:
CA3723, CA2256, CA2248, CA0132.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA3723 | 2 | 1949-08-25 | S |
CA2256 | 1 | 1922-04-29 | S |
CA2248 | 1 | 1922-04-22 | S |
CA0132 | 1 | 1889-05-11 | O |
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 194 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 185 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 176 | 5th lowest of 15 · 91% of median | 81 | 1.1 |
| 2011 | 92 | 4th lowest of 15 · 47% of median | 132 | 0.5 |
| 2012 | 43 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 127 | 0.4 |
| 2013 | 72 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 98 | 0.4 |
| 2014 | 252 | 11th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 140 | 2.1 |
| 2015 | 182 | 6th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 165 | 1.4 |
| 2016 | 19 | 1st lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 94 | 0.1 |
| 2017 | 219 | 9th lowest of 15 · 113% of median | 116 | 2.4 |
| 2018 | 237 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 168 | 2.3 |
| 2019 | 322 | 13th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 168 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 561 | 14th lowest of 15 · 289% of median | 159 | 1.8 |
| 2021 | 595 | 15th lowest of 15 · 307% of median | 162 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 194 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 161 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 315 | 12th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 75 | 2.6 |
| 2024 | 185 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 99 | 2.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+18 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.038).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 5 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 6424 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 41% of the irrigation seasons in 1952-2024 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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