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LILY PARK DITCH NO 1
Structure dossier · WDID 4400500 · 1 · YAMPA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 23:55 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 1886-04-10 — 31st most senior of the 3562 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: A Q DITCH (1886-04-06). Immediately behind: LILY PARK DITCH NO 1 PUMP STATION NO 1 (1886-04-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13249.0 | 1886-04-10 | 1894-09-22 | 36.67 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 19 |
Legal record & documents
1 decreed actions on record across
1 court case:
09/22/1894.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
09/22/1894 | 1 | 1894-09-22 | O |
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 1,668 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 3,134 AF — 188% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 106 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 6% of median | 5 | 26.7 |
| 2010 | 4,561 | 15th lowest of 15 · 273% of median | 94 | 26.7 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
| 2014 | 852 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 54 | 11.1 |
| 2015 | 1,668 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 93 | 12.0 |
| 2016 | 937 | 5th lowest of 15 · 56% of median | 53 | 11.1 |
| 2017 | 1,631 | 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median | 67 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 3,182 | 14th lowest of 15 · 191% of median | 96 | 19.6 |
| 2019 | 1,991 | 10th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 60 | 20.5 |
| 2020 | 2,771 | 12th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 78 | 22.3 |
| 2021 | 1,399 | 6th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 58 | 13.8 |
| 2022 | 1,831 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 77 | 13.4 |
| 2023 | 902 | 4th lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 45 | 12.5 |
| 2024 | 2,583 | 11th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 114 | 12.3 |
| 2025 | 3,134 | 13th lowest of 15 · 188% of median | 131 | 13.4 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | 1091 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 26% of the irrigation seasons in 2006-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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