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DAVENPORT D (COTTNWD)
Structure dossier · WDID 7200596 · 1 · COTTONWOOD CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 21:07 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 1888-09-01 — 79th 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: DUNLAP DITCH (HAWXHURST) (1888-08-31). Immediately behind: PLATEAU FLOUR MILL DITCH (1888-09-01).
Decreed rights (4)
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14124.0 | 1888-09-01 | 1890-02-07 | 3.296 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 65 |
| 22995.1487 | 1890-09-17 | 1916-06-01 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 22995.1741 | 1897-08-31 | 1916-06-01 | 1.8 | 0.0 | C | IRR | |
| 30895.13738 | 1887-08-12 | 1941-07-25 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | DOM |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 467 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 1,235 AF — 264% 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,604 | 13th lowest of 15 · 344% of median | 222 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 1,739 | 14th lowest of 15 · 372% of median | 268 | 12.9 |
| 2012 | 153 | 1st lowest of 15 · 33% of median | 77 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 467 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 88 | 5.4 |
| 2014 | 313 | 5th lowest of 15 · 67% of median | 106 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 624 | 10th lowest of 15 · 134% of median | 99 | 6.9 |
| 2016 | 551 | 9th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 72 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 437 | 7th lowest of 15 · 94% of median | 66 | 5.5 |
| 2018 | 201 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 43% of median | 100 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 1,201 | 11th lowest of 15 · 257% of median | 293 | 9.0 |
| 2020 | 280 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 169 | 2.1 |
| 2021 | 175 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 38% of median | 70 | 3.4 |
| 2022 | 365 | 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median | 139 | 6.0 |
| 2023 | 2,286 | 15th lowest of 15 · 490% of median | 352 | 10.7 |
| 2024 | 1,235 | 12th lowest of 15 · 264% of median | 234 | 8.8 |
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