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DEVER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800612 · 1 · YAMPA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:33 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1888-10-01 — 238th most senior of the 3097 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: LEE IRR DITCH ALT PT (1888-06-14). Immediately behind: LINDSEY DITCH (1889-04-10).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898.14154 | 1888-10-01 | 1902-09-15 | 3.75 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 61 |
| 19250.18079 | 1899-07-01 | 1902-09-16 | 1.25 | 0.0 | C | IRRDOM | 148 |
| 39254.23527 | 1914-06-01 | 1964-03-30 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 5AA |
| 41523.0 | 1963-09-08 | 1964-03-30 | 1.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 60 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 588 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 358 AF — 61% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 474 | 7th lowest of 15 · 81% of median | 61 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 630 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 121 | 4.0 |
| 2013 | 588 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 124 | 3.0 |
| 2014 | 230 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 39% of median | 42 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | 292 | 4th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 44 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 1,134 | 14th lowest of 15 · 193% of median | 103 | 9.2 |
| 2017 | 617 | 9th lowest of 15 · 105% of median | 131 | 3.5 |
| 2018 | 1,035 | 13th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 92 | 9.0 |
| 2019 | 1,020 | 12th lowest of 15 · 174% of median | 60 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 2,061 | 15th lowest of 15 · 350% of median | 168 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 13 | 0.2 |
| 2022 | 828 | 11th lowest of 15 · 141% of median | 66 | 15.3 |
| 2023 | 323 | 5th lowest of 15 · 55% of median | 92 | 3.0 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 358 | 6th lowest of 15 · 61% of median | 100 | 3.9 |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.