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OLD CABIN DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 5800809 · 1 · YAMPA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:20 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 1885-06-02 — 19th 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: SPECKLED TROUT DITCH (1885-06-01). Immediately behind: OLD CABIN DITCH ALT PT (1885-06-02).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12937.0 | 1885-06-02 | 1892-09-22 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 14 |
| 33782.23162 | 1913-06-01 | 1946-09-14 | 3.4 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 317A |
| 52960.49848 | 1986-06-24 | 1995-12-31 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 190 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 95 AF — 50% of that, and 4th 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 152 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 81 | 1.5 |
| 2008 | 345 | 13th lowest of 15 · 182% of median | 88 | 2.0 |
| 2009 | 254 | 11th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 65 | 2.0 |
| 2010 | 254 | 11th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 65 | 2.0 |
| 2011 | 179 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 31 | 3.0 |
| 2012 | 250 | 10th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 54 | 3.0 |
| 2013 | 149 | 5th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 51 | 1.5 |
| 2015 | 54 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 28% of median | 28 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 743 | 15th lowest of 15 · 391% of median | 88 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 190 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 65 | 1.5 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 2 | 0.0 |
| 2021 | 222 | 9th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 59 | 2.0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 3 | 0.0 |
| 2024 | 680 | 14th lowest of 15 · 358% of median | 50 | 7.0 |
| 2025 | 95 | 4th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 50 | 1.0 |
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