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SAYLES DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7700603 · 1 · NAVAJO RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:46 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.
Which of its rights get called out?
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 1973-07-11 — 128th 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: PYNE DITCH (1973-04-15). Immediately behind: NAVAJO RIVER MIN FLOW (1974-12-04).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45117.0 | 1973-07-11 | 1973-12-31 | 0.0 | 5.0 | C | IRRSTK | |
| 53325.53112 | 1995-06-01 | 1996-12-31 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | RECFISSTKEVP |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 48 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 21 AF — 44% of that, and 6th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
This structure records both diversions and reservoir releases — they are separate water movements and are accounted separately below.
| 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 | Released (AF) | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | 4th lowest of 15 · 17% of median | — | 19 | 0.6 |
| 2010 | 77 | 11th lowest of 15 · 160% of median | — | 167 | 0.3 |
| 2011 | 50 | 9th lowest of 15 · 104% of median | — | 48 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 74 | 10th lowest of 15 · 154% of median | — | 72 | 2.0 |
| 2013 | 48 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | — | 77 | 0.4 |
| 2014 | 31 | 7th lowest of 15 · 65% of median | — | 51 | 0.5 |
| 2015 | 2 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 4% of median | — | 18 | 0.3 |
| 2016 | 101 | 12th lowest of 15 · 210% of median | — | 170 | 0.3 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 13 | 0.0 |
| 2018 | 108 | 15th lowest of 15 · 225% of median | — | 123 | 0.5 |
| 2019 | 107 | 13th lowest of 15 · 223% of median | — | 112 | 0.5 |
| 2020 | 107 | 13th lowest of 15 · 223% of median | — | 110 | 0.5 |
| 2023 | 15 | 5th lowest of 15 · 31% of median | — | 78 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | — | 1 | 0.0 |
| 2025 | 21 | 6th lowest of 15 · 44% of median | — | 60 | 0.2 |
Advisory reading aid on public data — not an administrative or legal conclusion, not a title opinion, and not a substitute for DWR administration or an engineer's analysis. Methodology review status is disclosed at hydrohistorian's basin pages.