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DAUM DITCH 3
Structure dossier · WDID 4300599 · 1 · NORTH ELK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 01:48 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (a1c9146) — 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 1912-04-30 — 1194th most senior of the 3293 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: DAUM DITCH 2 (1912-04-29). Immediately behind: GREENSTREET DITCH NO. 2 (1916-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 39776.22765 | 1912-04-30 | 1966-11-21 | 1.4 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISFIRDOMSTKAUG | 612 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA1269, 08CW0042.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1269 | 1 | 1966-11-21 | S |
08CW0042 | 2 | 1966-11-21 | S |
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 196 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 165 AF — 84% 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 | 10 | 5th lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 9 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 56 | 6th lowest of 15 · 29% of median | 24 | 1.4 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 196 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 32 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 645 | 13th lowest of 15 · 329% of median | 85 | 3.9 |
| 2019 | 371 | 10th lowest of 15 · 189% of median | 50 | 3.8 |
| 2020 | 311 | 9th lowest of 15 · 159% of median | 42 | 3.8 |
| 2021 | 678 | 14th lowest of 15 · 346% of median | 94 | 3.8 |
| 2022 | 1,115 | 15th lowest of 15 · 569% of median | 144 | 3.9 |
| 2023 | 561 | 12th lowest of 15 · 286% of median | 81 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 541 | 11th lowest of 15 · 276% of median | 180 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 165 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 50 | 1.8 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is rising over its last 15 recorded years (+42 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.021).
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (7/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 3250 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 26% of the irrigation seasons in 1968-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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