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DAVENPORT DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900546 · 1 · PARACHUTE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 19:17 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 in line
Priority 1889-05-01 — 128th most senior of the 1758 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: COZZA SPRING DITCH (1894-04-27). Immediately behind: GRANLEE DITCH (1889-04-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17698.14366 | 1889-05-01 | 1898-06-16 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH | 143A |
| 31031.14001 | 1888-05-01 | 1937-01-04 | 1.33 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH | 199 |
| 31031.27818 | 1926-03-01 | 1937-01-04 | 3.09 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH | 207H |
| 31031.27818 | 1926-03-01 | 1937-01-04 | 5.69 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDDOMAUGPWROTH | 207C |
| 36204.0 | 1949-02-14 | 1952-09-05 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 9 |
| 50302.0 | 1987-09-21 | 1987-12-31 | 9.274 | 0.0 | C | RCH |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 519 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2021, came in at 373 AF — 72% of that, and 6th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 1,374 | 15th lowest of 15 · 265% of median | 161 | 5.6 |
| 1989 | 803 | 13th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 98 | 12.0 |
| 1990 | 519 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 184 | 2.1 |
| 1991 | 799 | 12th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | 204 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 117 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 42 | 1.4 |
| 1993 | 719 | 11th lowest of 15 · 138% of median | 107 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 693 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 129 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 839 | 14th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 159 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 617 | 9th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 115 | 2.7 |
| 1998 | 304 | 4th lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 124 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 379 | 7th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 159 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 61 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 368 | 5th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 366 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 373 | 6th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 142 | 8.0 |
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