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NAVAJO MEADOW DITCH

Structure dossier · WDID 7700562 · 1 · NAVAJO RIVER · DWR record

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-08-27 21:24 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (f6d7fdc) — 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 1938-07-01 — 75th most senior of the 187 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: EUGENE MARTINEZ NO 2 D (1938-05-20). Immediately behind: THREE LAKES RES NO 1 (1939-07-01).

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. UnitsUsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on.Case
41016.323231938-07-011968-12-19 6.00.0 CIRRINDRECFIRDOMSTK 68-68

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 395 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 575 AF — 146% of that, and 9th 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)
2011 47 1st lowest of 15 · 12% of median 48 0.7
2012 199 4th lowest of 15 · 50% of median 84 2.4
2013 619 10th lowest of 15 · 157% of median 152 4.1
2014 223 5th lowest of 15 · 56% of median 79 4.6
2015 395 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 99 3.5
2016 65 2nd lowest of 15 · 16% of median 51 1.2
2017 385 7th lowest of 15 · 98% of median 76 4.0
2018 1,021 13th lowest of 15 · 258% of median 135 6.0
2019 694 11th lowest of 15 · 176% of median 92 6.8
2020 122 3rd lowest of 15 · 31% of median 54 2.0
2021 809 12th lowest of 15 · 205% of median 128 5.7
2022 235 6th lowest of 15 · 60% of median 65 3.8
2023 1,110 14th lowest of 15 · 281% of median 132 5.8
2024 1,779 15th lowest of 15 · 450% of median 155 10.1
2025 575 9th lowest of 15 · 146% of median 142 3.8

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