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PRIVATE DITCH SHAVEN
Structure dossier · WDID 6800700 · 1 · COW CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:25 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 1882-05-01 — 86th most senior of the 1293 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: OAKES JEROME DITCH (1882-05-01). Immediately behind: SOL TEAGUE DITCH (1882-05-01).
Decreed rights (1)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11809.0 | 1882-05-01 | 1897-05-15 | 0.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 60 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 147 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 186 AF — 126% of that, and 10th 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 | 147 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 48 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 95 | 5th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | 85 | 3.2 |
| 2013 | 63 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 21 | 2.1 |
| 2014 | 228 | 11th lowest of 15 · 155% of median | 64 | 2.0 |
| 2015 | 124 | 7th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 37 | 2.3 |
| 2016 | 15 | 1st lowest of 15 · 10% of median | 27 | 0.4 |
| 2017 | 504 | 15th lowest of 15 · 343% of median | 156 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 387 | 14th lowest of 15 · 263% of median | 105 | 4.8 |
| 2019 | 117 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 89 | 2.5 |
| 2020 | 176 | 9th lowest of 15 · 120% of median | 60 | 2.2 |
| 2021 | 299 | 12th lowest of 15 · 203% of median | 69 | 2.8 |
| 2022 | 21 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 14% of median | 30 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 75 | 4th lowest of 15 · 51% of median | 57 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 339 | 13th lowest of 15 · 231% of median | 38 | 6.1 |
| 2025 | 186 | 10th lowest of 15 · 126% of median | 50 | 3.1 |
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