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DAVENPORT DITCH (E SALT)

Structure dossier · WDID 7200595 · 1 · EAST SALT CREEK · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:23 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 1908-03-18 — 486th most senior of the 2166 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: H F MCCLAIN DITCH (1907-11-01). Immediately behind: HOWARD SALT RIVER (1908-11-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
30963.212611908-03-181934-12-17 2.00.0 CIRR 193
30963.2381915-03-011934-12-17 1.120.0 CIRR 197
34515.01944-07-011952-09-05 3.00.0 CIRR 247

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 236 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2015, came in at 128 AF — 54% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.

YearDiverted (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 recordDays recordedPeak (cfs)
2000 629 14th lowest of 15 · 266% of median 85 7.0
2001 870 15th lowest of 15 · 369% of median 147 5.0
2002 0 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median 4 0.0
2003 83 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median 34 2.5
2004 284 11th lowest of 15 · 120% of median 101 2.7
2005 549 13th lowest of 15 · 233% of median 173 3.6
2006 325 12th lowest of 15 · 138% of median 128 3.0
2007 255 9th lowest of 15 · 108% of median 80 2.4
2008 236 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 115 3.0
2010 266 10th lowest of 15 · 113% of median 76 3.0
2011 139 7th lowest of 15 · 59% of median 85 1.3
2012 88 4th lowest of 15 · 37% of median 67 0.8
2013 18 2nd lowest of 15 · 8% of median 35 0.5
2014 92 5th lowest of 15 · 39% of median 69 1.5
2015 128 6th lowest of 15 · 54% of median 110 1.5

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