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SHAVANO VALLEY DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4100560 · 1 · SPRING CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:03 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 1884-11-21 — 61st most senior of the 1104 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: LOGAN DITCH (1884-09-24). Immediately behind: HEATH DITCH (1885-02-21).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12744.0 | 1884-11-21 | 1890-06-30 | 7.81 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 56, 7 |
| 29038.27484 | 1925-04-01 | 1941-12-04 | 5.94 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 197 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 798 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 738 AF — 92% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,174 | 13th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 108 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 1,544 | 14th lowest of 15 · 194% of median | 105 | 13.2 |
| 2013 | 1,134 | 12th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 80 | 12.6 |
| 2014 | 798 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 49 | 12.0 |
| 2015 | 1,726 | 15th lowest of 15 · 216% of median | 101 | 13.8 |
| 2016 | 761 | 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median | 99 | 10.1 |
| 2017 | 953 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 100 | 12.2 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2019 | 581 | 5th lowest of 15 · 73% of median | 83 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 163 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 20% of median | 31 | 3.6 |
| 2021 | 452 | 4th lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 51 | 6.3 |
| 2022 | 249 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 31% of median | 43 | 4.4 |
| 2023 | 856 | 9th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 57 | 10.1 |
| 2024 | 998 | 11th lowest of 15 · 125% of median | 62 | 10.2 |
| 2025 | 738 | 6th lowest of 15 · 92% of median | 55 | 9.3 |
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