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DAVIE DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3900547 · 1 · RIFLE CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:08 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 1909-03-23 — 192nd 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: HUBBARD DITCH (1893-04-01). Immediately behind: TONY PERRY DITCH (1910-07-20).
Decreed rights (2)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22605.21631 | 1909-03-23 | 1911-12-08 | 8.66 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 176A |
| 37503.36355 | 1949-07-15 | 1966-11-10 | 9.34 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 302 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 1,748 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,947 AF — 111% of that, and 13th 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 | 1,926 | 11th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 365 | 10.0 |
| 2011 | 1,401 | 5th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 365 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 1,934 | 12th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 366 | 10.0 |
| 2013 | 1,748 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 365 | 8.0 |
| 2014 | 964 | 1st lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 365 | 7.7 |
| 2015 | 1,242 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 365 | 9.0 |
| 2016 | 1,854 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 366 | 13.9 |
| 2017 | 1,882 | 10th lowest of 15 · 108% of median | 365 | 9.8 |
| 2018 | 1,496 | 6th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 365 | 8.8 |
| 2019 | 1,032 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 59% of median | 365 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 2,058 | 15th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 366 | 13.2 |
| 2021 | 1,665 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 365 | 10.1 |
| 2022 | 1,253 | 4th lowest of 15 · 72% of median | 365 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 2,010 | 14th lowest of 15 · 115% of median | 365 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 1,947 | 13th lowest of 15 · 111% of median | 305 | 9.9 |
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