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DAVIS DITCH 1
Structure dossier · WDID 8000831 · DITCH · ELK CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-28 02:17 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (0576005) — 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.
Current administration
● Fully called out — call at LAST CHANCE DITCH 2 (SOUTH PLATTE RIVER, priority 1863-12-30).
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 1884-03-01 — 691st most senior of the 21881 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: 2300605 (1883-12-31). Immediately behind: 0805543 (1884-05-17).
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. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12479.0 | 1884-03-01 | 1913-05-22 | 0.645 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISAUG |
Legal record & documents
4 decreed actions on record across
2 court cases:
CA1678, 10CW0305.
Every case, dated
| Case | Actions | Latest adjudication | Types |
|---|---|---|---|
CA1678 | 1 | 1913-05-22 | O |
10CW0305 | 3 | 1913-05-22 | O |
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 101 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2025, came in at 1 AF — 1% of that, and 1st 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 69 | 5th lowest of 15 · 68% of median | 38 | 1.0 |
| 1998 | 208 | 13th lowest of 15 · 206% of median | 43 | 2.5 |
| 2000 | 154 | 9th lowest of 15 · 152% of median | 33 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 164 | 11th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 56 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 22 | 4th lowest of 15 · 22% of median | 11 | 1.5 |
| 2003 | 164 | 11th lowest of 15 · 162% of median | 44 | 2.2 |
| 2004 | 76 | 7th lowest of 15 · 75% of median | 18 | 2.5 |
| 2005 | 159 | 10th lowest of 15 · 157% of median | 33 | 2.5 |
| 2006 | 9 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 9% of median | 3 | 2.2 |
| 2007 | 261 | 14th lowest of 15 · 258% of median | 72 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 72 | 6th lowest of 15 · 71% of median | 62 | 0.7 |
| 2009 | 357 | 15th lowest of 15 · 354% of median | 120 | 1.8 |
| 2010 | 101 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 54 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 7 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 7% of median | 37 | 0.2 |
| 2025 | 1 | 1st lowest of 15 · 1% of median | 5 | 0.1 |
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 (7/10 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 | 1 right(s), seniority decoded |
| diversion record | present | 1340 measured days; currency unknown (no data-coverage date to compare against) |
| record continuity | sparse | 11% of the irrigation seasons in 1969-2025 carry measured days |
| published-record stability | stable | no upstream revisions recorded against this structure |
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