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PEAVEY NO 2 DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5100829 · 1 · SAINT LOUIS CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:23 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 1888-06-25 — 70th most senior of the 2208 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: BUTTON NO 4 DITCH (1888-06-20). Immediately behind: COZENS DITCH (1888-10-31).
Decreed rights (3)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14056.0 | 1888-06-25 | 1906-08-11 | 4.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 64 |
| 15340.0 | 1891-12-31 | 1906-08-11 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 951/2 |
| 20676.14056 | 1888-06-25 | 1911-08-03 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 177 |
Legal record & documents
3 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA0183, CA0112.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA0183 | 1 | 1911-08-03 | S |
CA0112 | 2 | 1906-08-11 | 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 6 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 768 AF. Its most recent year on record, 1987, came in at 439 AF — 57% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 1,120 | 6th lowest of 6 · 146% of median | 163 | 5.7 |
| 1979 | 1,025 | 5th lowest of 6 · 134% of median | 160 | 6.8 |
| 1980 | 954 | 4th lowest of 6 · 124% of median | 157 | 6.6 |
| 1981 | 570 | 2nd lowest of 6 · 74% of median | 163 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 581 | 3rd lowest of 6 · 76% of median | 153 | 3.6 |
| 1987 | 439 | 1st lowest of 6 · 57% of median | 140 | 2.0 |
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 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 | 3 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 936 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 46% of the irrigation seasons in 1978-1987 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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