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YARNELL DITCH NO 1 AP 1
Structure dossier · WDID 5601326 · 1 · TALAMANTES CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:20 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 1882-04-01 — 7th most senior of the 909 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: DICKINSON DITCH NO 1 (1882-04-01). Immediately behind: PRESTOPITZ DITCH ALT PT1 (1882-04-01).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11779.0 | 1882-04-01 | 1894-09-22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTK | 2 |
| 13407.0 | 1886-09-15 | 1894-09-22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTKALL | 4 |
| 13710.0 | 1887-07-15 | 1894-09-22 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTKALL | 6 |
| 44925.22035 | 1910-05-01 | 1973-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOMSTKALL |
Legal record & documents
15 decreed actions on record across
5 court cases:
W0569-73, W0568-73, 08CW0089, 89CW0089, 83CW0075.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0569-73 | 2 | 1973-12-31 | O, S |
W0568-73 | 2 | 1973-12-31 | O, S |
08CW0089 | 8 | 1973-12-31 | O, S |
89CW0089 | 2 | 1894-09-22 | O |
83CW0075 | 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 13 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 0 AF — 0% of that, and 1st 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 | 526 | 15th lowest of 15 · 4046% of median | 87 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 52 | 12th lowest of 15 · 400% of median | 14 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 83 | 14th lowest of 15 · 638% of median | 22 | 2.0 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 18 | 0.0 |
| 2015 | 5 | 7th lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 17 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 35 | 9th lowest of 15 · 269% of median | 37 | 1.3 |
| 2017 | 50 | 11th lowest of 15 · 385% of median | 41 | 2.2 |
| 2018 | 47 | 10th lowest of 15 · 362% of median | 35 | 2.6 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 27 | 0.0 |
| 2020 | 58 | 13th lowest of 15 · 446% of median | 54 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 13 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 25 | 0.8 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 19 | 0.0 |
| 2023 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 4 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 5 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 13 | 0.0 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use is falling over its last 15 recorded years (-4 AF/yr, Mann-Kendall p=0.012).
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 | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 732 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 17% of the irrigation seasons in 2005-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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