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LOWER PLEASANT VALLEY D
Structure dossier · WDID 5800749 · 1 · YAMPA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:03 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 1890-04-20 — 240th 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: LINDSEY DITCH (1889-04-10). Immediately behind: CULLEN DITCH 2 (1892-05-15).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18898.1472 | 1890-04-20 | 1902-09-15 | 7.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRMUNDOMAUGRCH | 89 |
| 31361.19327 | 1902-12-01 | 1935-11-13 | 0.54 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 163-AA |
| 33782.30467 | 1933-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 3.46 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 336 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 238 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 334 AF — 140% of that, and 11th 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 | 278 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 31 | 5.0 |
| 2012 | 261 | 9th lowest of 15 · 110% of median | 82 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 571 | 14th lowest of 15 · 240% of median | 53 | 6.0 |
| 2014 | 805 | 15th lowest of 15 · 338% of median | 59 | 7.0 |
| 2015 | 412 | 13th lowest of 15 · 173% of median | 54 | 5.0 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 35 | 4th lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 24 | 1.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 5% of median | 63 | 0.1 |
| 2020 | 98 | 5th lowest of 15 · 41% of median | 222 | 0.5 |
| 2021 | 238 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 76 | 5.1 |
| 2022 | 201 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 107 | 4.8 |
| 2023 | 160 | 6th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 84 | 2.8 |
| 2024 | 362 | 12th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 31 | 8.4 |
| 2025 | 334 | 11th lowest of 15 · 140% of median | 47 | 8.0 |
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