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USBR NAVAJO DIVERSION

Structure dossier · WDID 7704635 · PIPELINE · NAVAJO RIVER · DWR record

Usbr Navajo Diversion is a pipeline on Navajo River in Colorado. This page is its public record: the water it has a right to, whether it may take it today, and its history, compiled from the Colorado Division of Water Resources.

Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR structure ↗ Source DWR administrative record · verify at DWR diversion records ↗ Source Our computation, scored against a reference · scored against DWR's call analysis, see /methods

Where this page's figures come from

Generated 2026-10-26 08:32 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260928 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (3876149) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.

Who owns it

DWR’s own records name no owner for a ditch, reservoir or well, so this comes from the source shown and can be out of date. Organisations only: a private landowner’s name is never listed.

This is water crossing the divide

Usbr Navajo Diversion is the source end of the Azotea Tunnel (San Juan-Chama Project) (tunnel). It takes water from Navajo, Little Navajo and Rio Blanco headwaters (Div 7) and delivers it to Rio Grande basin at Chama, New Mexico. Water leaving here is an export: it never reaches the rest of this basin.

Metered as a facility: AZOTUNNM, OSODIVCO, LOSODVCO, BLADIVCO — the record for the crossing itself, which may run longer than the record for either structure.

Owner / operator: USBR

From the site’s hand-curated register of transbasin facilities. Every crossing on one page →

Where this structure is measured

GageFlowing nowRecordHow we know
NAVAJO RIVER BELOW OSO DIVERSION DAM NEAR CHROMO NAVOSOCO — 1971–2026, 20,300 days co-located, 144 m

A green link is DWR's own: either its telemetry inventory maps this WDID to that station, or the station is named for this WDID (0700553 → 0700553A). An amber one is ours — the station sits within 250 m and shares a distinctive word with this structure's name, which is a strong hint rather than a DWR statement that this gage meters this structure. Wrong? Tell us.

In short

In a median year over its last 15 recorded years it diverts 29,238 acre-feet.

Assembled from the figures on this page — every number above is checked against them before it is shown (2 checked). The detail, with its method, is in the cards below.

Download this structure

Everything on this page as data you can work with — and a README that makes it citable: the HydroBase snapshot it was built from, the build commit, what every column means, the method behind each derived figure, and that method's stated limits.

⇩ Full record (.zip) Print / save as PDF

Or one table at a time: rights.csv · annual_use.csv · curtailment_now.csv · court_cases.csv · co_parties.csv · call_climatology.csv

What is in the bundle
  • rights.csv — every decreed right, most senior first, with admin numbers, dates, amounts, uses and case numbers.
  • annual_use.csv — recorded diversion by year, with releases accounted separately.
  • curtailment_now.csv — each right's current priority status and how often it was out across analog years.
  • court_cases.csv — the cases attached to its rights.
  • co_parties.csv — the other structures that were parties to those cases. Not available anywhere else.
  • call_climatology.csv — how often each right has been out of priority by week of season, with confidence intervals and the seasons the record could actually judge.
  • README.txt — provenance, methods, limits, disclaimer, and links back to DWR's own records for verification.

Where it sits

Location as DWR records it (diversion). Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.

Which of its rights are out of priority?

The outlook for the weeks ahead is not computable for this structure: no decreed right on file, so there is no priority to test.

Recorded use (last 15 years on record)

Years far under the decreed amount? That gap has a name — paper water vs. wet water, explained on this structure.

In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 29,238 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 15,124 AF — 52% of that, and 1st 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 43,061 12th lowest of 15 · 147% of median 209 476.0
2012 21,634 5th lowest of 15 · 74% of median 135 241.0
2013 18,591 3rd lowest of 15 · 64% of median 275 233.0
2014 22,829 6th lowest of 15 · 78% of median 304 401.0
2015 41,945 11th lowest of 15 · 144% of median 273 528.0
2016 41,370 10th lowest of 15 · 142% of median 243 497.0
2017 76,160 15th lowest of 15 · 260% of median 333 482.0
2018 15,487 2nd lowest of 15 · 53% of median 214 251.0
2019 70,017 14th lowest of 15 · 240% of median 365 590.0
2020 21,249 4th lowest of 15 · 73% of median 311 267.0
2021 27,745 7th lowest of 15 · 95% of median 361 313.0
2022 29,238 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median 365 354.0
2023 68,018 13th lowest of 15 · 233% of median 365 569.0
2024 33,587 9th lowest of 15 · 115% of median 305 369.0
2025 15,124 1st lowest of 15 · 52% of median 269 283.0

How good is our record of it?

Grade B (7/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.

The rubric, component by component
CheckStateDetail
identity complete name, type, and water source all on file
decreed rights absent no water rights cached for this WDID
diversion record present 16712 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against)
record continuity continuous 100% of the irrigation seasons in 1973-2025 carry measured days
published-record stability stable no upstream revisions recorded against this structure

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