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ABRAHAM DAVIS DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 7800501 · 1 · EAST FORK PIEDRA RIVER · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 22:03 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 1900-04-01 — 106th most senior of the 366 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: MCWHIRTERS POND & PUMP (1899-05-16). Immediately behind: F S MOCKLER IRR DITCH (1901-10-01).
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28645.18353 | 1900-04-01 | 1962-04-19 | 2.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #233 |
| 29949.0 | 1931-12-31 | 1962-04-19 | 3.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #296 |
| 31197.0 | 1935-06-01 | 1962-04-19 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #305 |
| 32658.0 | 1939-06-01 | 1962-04-19 | 7.5 | 0.0 | C | IRR | #313 |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
W0432, CA0308.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
W0432 | 1 | 1962-04-19 | S |
CA0308 | 3 | 1962-04-19 | S |
DWR's own records for this structure: net amounts · transactions & adjudication history · scanned decrees (search a case number there for the imaged document). On this site: the district's full legal picture →
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 352 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 873 AF — 248% of that, and 15th 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 | 499 | 13th lowest of 15 · 142% of median | 86 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 621 | 14th lowest of 15 · 176% of median | 135 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 356 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 109 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 302 | 7th lowest of 15 · 86% of median | 93 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1st lowest of 15 · 0% of median | 9 | 0.0 |
| 2016 | 123 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 35% of median | 53 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 234 | 5th lowest of 15 · 66% of median | 52 | 4.0 |
| 2018 | 281 | 6th lowest of 15 · 80% of median | 130 | 2.8 |
| 2019 | 83 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 24% of median | 49 | 2.3 |
| 2020 | 465 | 12th lowest of 15 · 132% of median | 157 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 413 | 10th lowest of 15 · 117% of median | 117 | 5.2 |
| 2022 | 205 | 4th lowest of 15 · 58% of median | 65 | 4.2 |
| 2023 | 419 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 81 | 4.2 |
| 2024 | 352 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 87 | 4.1 |
| 2025 | 873 | 15th lowest of 15 · 248% of median | 138 | 9.5 |
Trends for this structure
Recorded use shows no clear trend over its last 15 recorded years — which is itself worth knowing.
How good is our record of it?
Grade B (8/10 points) — the components below are the finding; the letter alone is not.
The rubric, component by component
| Check | State | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| identity | complete | name, type, and water source all on file |
| decreed rights | on file | 4 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 6623 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | patchy | 50% of the irrigation seasons in 1964-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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