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NAVAJO RIVER DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7700564 · 1 · NAVAJO RIVER · 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 (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 1916-06-20 — 38th 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: SPRING GULCH DITCH (1914-12-31). Immediately behind: PETERSON CREEK DITCH (1916-06-21).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28645.24277 | 1916-06-20 | 1962-04-19 | 2.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #271 |
| 42646.0 | 1966-10-05 | 1968-12-19 | 5.5 | 0.0 | C | IRRINDRECFIRDOMSTK | 68-253 |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 414 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 2,129 AF — 514% of that, and 14th 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 | 62 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 15% of median | 48 | 0.9 |
| 2012 | 208 | 6th lowest of 15 · 50% of median | 84 | 2.2 |
| 2013 | 1,482 | 11th lowest of 15 · 358% of median | 152 | 7.6 |
| 2014 | 78 | 4th lowest of 15 · 19% of median | 62 | 1.1 |
| 2015 | 414 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 99 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 53 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 13% of median | 45 | 1.1 |
| 2017 | 214 | 7th lowest of 15 · 52% of median | 60 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 155 | 5th lowest of 15 · 37% of median | 70 | 2.7 |
| 2019 | 611 | 9th lowest of 15 · 148% of median | 83 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 4 | 1st lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 21 | 0.3 |
| 2021 | 1,607 | 12th lowest of 15 · 388% of median | 155 | 8.0 |
| 2022 | 1,256 | 10th lowest of 15 · 303% of median | 80 | 21.8 |
| 2023 | 2,581 | 15th lowest of 15 · 623% of median | 168 | 16.6 |
| 2024 | 2,065 | 13th lowest of 15 · 499% of median | 155 | 10.6 |
| 2025 | 2,129 | 14th lowest of 15 · 514% of median | 142 | 12.0 |
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