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CRAVER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 6000569 · 1 · DRY CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:02 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — 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 1913-07-02 — 710th most senior of the 2893 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: GILLESPIE DITCH (1909-06-20). Immediately behind: BUTTERFLY DRAW DITCH (1913-07-21).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24379.23193 | 1913-07-02 | 1920-09-16 | 10.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 134 |
| 30604.28053 | 1926-10-22 | 1939-11-01 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 287 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 468 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 414 AF — 88% 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 | 843 | 13th lowest of 15 · 180% of median | 170 | 7.0 |
| 2011 | 997 | 14th lowest of 15 · 213% of median | 82 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 314 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 87 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 304 | 4th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 62 | 3.3 |
| 2014 | 728 | 12th lowest of 15 · 156% of median | 106 | 9.2 |
| 2015 | 652 | 11th lowest of 15 · 139% of median | 123 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 1,002 | 15th lowest of 15 · 214% of median | 214 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 573 | 10th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 116 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 91 | 1st lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 158 | 0.7 |
| 2019 | 468 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 113 | 5.4 |
| 2020 | 204 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 110 | 2.0 |
| 2021 | 173 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 86 | 1.4 |
| 2022 | 421 | 7th lowest of 15 · 90% of median | 92 | 9.0 |
| 2023 | 523 | 9th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 121 | 6.0 |
| 2024 | 414 | 6th lowest of 15 · 88% of median | 126 | 5.0 |
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