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GAVITO DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3901059 · 1 · EAST ELK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:11 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 1987-06-01 — 1230th 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: ANVIL POINTS SPRING (1990-08-08). Immediately behind: GAVITO PUMP (1990-06-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51499.5019 | 1987-06-01 | 1991-12-31 | 0.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR |
Recorded use (last 10 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 26 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2005, came in at 51 AF — 200% of that, and 8th lowest of the 10 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 27 | 6th lowest of 10 · 106% of median | 92 | 0.2 |
| 1997 | 35 | 7th lowest of 10 · 137% of median | 99 | 0.2 |
| 1998 | 52 | 9th lowest of 10 · 204% of median | 105 | 0.2 |
| 1999 | 60 | 10th lowest of 10 · 235% of median | 153 | 0.2 |
| 2000 | 24 | 5th lowest of 10 · 94% of median | 82 | 0.2 |
| 2001 | 21 | 4th lowest of 10 · 82% of median | 72 | 0.2 |
| 2002 | 8 | 1st lowest of 10 · 31% of median | 41 | 0.1 |
| 2003 | 16 | 2nd lowest of 10 · 63% of median | 84 | 0.1 |
| 2004 | 17 | 3rd lowest of 10 · 67% of median | 90 | 0.1 |
| 2005 | 51 | 8th lowest of 10 · 200% of median | 144 | 0.2 |
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