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LYON DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800755 · 1 · OAK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 03:00 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 1887-10-31 — 59th 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: IRA J VAN CAMP DITCH (1887-10-13). Immediately behind: MORIN DITCH (1888-04-24).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13818.0 | 1887-10-31 | 1892-09-22 | 1.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | (41)40 |
| 33782.14397 | 1889-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 3.2 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 279 |
Legal record & documents
2 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA2475, 09/22/1892.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA2475 | 1 | 1946-09-14 | S |
09/22/1892 | 1 | 1892-09-22 | 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 218 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 284 AF — 130% of that, and 12th 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 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2012 | 136 | 5th lowest of 15 · 62% of median | 50 | 2.7 |
| 2013 | 233 | 10th lowest of 15 · 107% of median | 58 | 4.6 |
| 2014 | 395 | 15th lowest of 15 · 181% of median | 52 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 60 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 58 | 0.6 |
| 2016 | 232 | 9th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 109 | 2.3 |
| 2017 | 331 | 14th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 59 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 248 | 11th lowest of 15 · 114% of median | 56 | 2.5 |
| 2019 | 124 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 57% of median | 39 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 194 | 7th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 59 | 2.8 |
| 2021 | 191 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 65 | 2.8 |
| 2022 | 218 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 42 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 127 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 40 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 295 | 13th lowest of 15 · 135% of median | 47 | 4.8 |
| 2025 | 284 | 12th lowest of 15 · 130% of median | 38 | 6.7 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
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 | present | 5244 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 27% of the irrigation seasons in 1933-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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