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W R DEAKINS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 4400501 · 1 · WILLIAMS FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:05 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 1888-05-01 — 177th 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: SHEARS DEAL DITCH AP 1 (1888-03-30). Immediately behind: JOHNSON DITCH (1888-05-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19250.14001 | 1888-05-01 | 1902-09-18 | 1.25 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 38 |
| 40421.39704 | 1958-09-15 | 1972-05-30 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 33 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 511 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 416 AF — 81% 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 | 95 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 9 | 6.0 |
| 2012 | 946 | 15th lowest of 15 · 185% of median | 87 | 6.0 |
| 2013 | 651 | 10th lowest of 15 · 127% of median | 160 | 6.0 |
| 2014 | 847 | 14th lowest of 15 · 166% of median | 76 | 7.0 |
| 2015 | 511 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 80 | 6.0 |
| 2016 | 310 | 5th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 81 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 690 | 11th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 72 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 206 | 4th lowest of 15 · 40% of median | 66 | 2.2 |
| 2021 | 792 | 13th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 119 | 6.0 |
| 2022 | 434 | 7th lowest of 15 · 85% of median | 117 | 2.7 |
| 2023 | 776 | 12th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 117 | 13.0 |
| 2024 | 515 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 66 | 5.0 |
| 2025 | 416 | 6th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 68 | 4.0 |
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