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SHEARS DEAL DITCH AP 1
Structure dossier · WDID 4402193 · 1 · WILLIAMS FORK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:54 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 1888-03-30 — 176th 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 2 (1888-03-30). Immediately behind: W R DEAKINS 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19250.13969 | 1888-03-30 | 1902-09-18 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK | 36 |
| 42473.38106 | 1954-05-01 | 1972-05-30 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 25 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
3 court cases:
CA2259, W0047-70, 93CW0115.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2259 | 1 | 1972-05-30 | S |
W0047-70 | 1 | 1902-09-18 | S |
93CW0115 | 2 | 1902-09-18 | 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 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 166 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 167 AF — 101% of that, and 4th lowest of the 6 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 0 | 1st lowest of 6 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 177 | 5th lowest of 6 · 107% of median | 32 | 3.3 |
| 2021 | 211 | 6th lowest of 6 · 127% of median | 35 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 165 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 99% of median | 29 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 129 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 78% of median | 22 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 167 | 4th lowest of 6 · 101% of median | 27 | 3.4 |
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 | 2 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | fragment | 146 measured day(s) on file (under 180 -- a season, not a history) |
| record continuity | unknown | record too short to assess continuity (needs 2+ years of span and 180+ measured days) |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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