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Arkansas: Portland to Fowler

Division 2 · Water District 14 · As of 2026-08-21 03:03 MDT · 2 weeks ago
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Arkansas: Portland to Fowler on the ground — the ditches, wells, reservoirs and gages of Water District 14 · clicktap anything for its record

Browse this district’s ditches, gages, reservoirs, wells and springs as a list.

2% of normal flow, week of 2026-06-29
24 calls active on it right now

The Arkansas River is critically low for late June -- 2% of normal flow, its 2nd-driest such week in 91 years of record. 24 calls stand against it right now; the most senior right calling dates to 1860.

Groundwater

17,937 water-level measurements across 541 monitored well(s) — 498 alluvial, 0 bedrock — plus 7 administered well(s) reporting metered pumping.

What is being counted

Observation wells and pumping wells are different populations and are never conflated: water levels come from monitored observation wells, and metered pumping comes from administered wells reporting through diversion records. Click any well to chart its own record.

Well map

3D aquifer x-ray

Every aquifer unit as its own head surface, animated through time.

How the surfaces are built, and what they are not

Alluvial water table on top, Denver Basin members (Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe, Laramie–Fox Hills) stacked beneath where measured, interpolated from measured water levels. Units are never mixed; a surface exists only inside its own unit's well coverage, with no extrapolation; thin epochs are suppressed and say why. Vertical scale is exaggerated for readability and z is head elevation in feet. These are measured heads, not a calibrated groundwater model.

Water-table trends

Of 107 well(s) with enough record for a trend test: 26 declining, 25 rising.

Fastest-declining wellsSettingft / decadeSpanp
SC02006335BBC alluvial -2.79 18 yr 0.0019
SC02006436BCD alluvial -2.39 19 yr 0.0001
SC02006328CCD1 alluvial -2.19 19 yr 0.0
SC02006334BAA2 alluvial -2.13 24 yr 0.0001
SC02006334CAA alluvial -2.11 15 yr 0.0002
ARK-008 MAYES WELL NO 1 alluvial -2.1 26 yr 0.0112
SC02006333ABA2 alluvial -1.91 29 yr 0.0
SC02006336DCD1 alluvial -1.86 22 yr 0.036

Stream corridors — the surface connection

Where a reach's gain or loss has shifted, the wells within two miles of its anchoring gage and what their water table did over the same era.

How the corridor is assembled

For each reach whose gain/loss has shifted (Trends tab): the wells within 2 miles of its anchoring gage, their pooled water-table history over the same era, and an advisory Glover screen of lagged stream depletion from nearby metered pumping. v1 proximity = distance to the reach's anchoring gage; segment-based reach join is a flagged upgrade.

ARKANSAS RIVER TRIBUTARY ABOVE HWY 227 AT PUEBLO: 16 alluvial well(s) nearby; pooled water table +0.4 ft (1963–2023, no_trend, p=0.5912). Glover screen: 0.2 cfs of nearby metered alluvial pumping → est. lagged depletion 0.2–0.2 cfs (uncalibrated T/S ranges; flagged for SPDSS calibration, AWAS cross-check, and expert review — DWR's AWAS is the authority).

HUERFANO RIVER NEAR BOONE, CO.: 38 alluvial well(s) nearby; pooled water table -188.7 ft (1900–2023, increasing, p=0.0)

ROCKY FORD HIGHLINE CANAL AT MILE 4.9 NEAR BOONE: 29 alluvial well(s) nearby; pooled water table -174.6 ft (1900–2020, increasing, p=0.0041)

ARKANSAS RIVER ABOVE PUEBLO: 5 alluvial well(s) nearby

ARKANSAS RIVER NEAR AVONDALE, CO.: 31 alluvial well(s) nearby; pooled water table -2.3 ft (1962–2023, no_trend, p=0.4808)

ARKANSAS RIVER AT NEPESTA BRIDGE NEAR NEPESTA, CO: 11 alluvial well(s) nearby; pooled water table -0.6 ft (1962–2023, no_trend, p=0.1563)

ARKANSAS RIVER AT MOFFAT STREET AT PUEBLO, CO: 9 alluvial well(s) nearby; pooled water table +1.8 ft (1963–1999, no_trend, p=0.1733). Glover screen: 0.2 cfs of nearby metered alluvial pumping → est. lagged depletion 0.2–0.2 cfs (uncalibrated T/S ranges; flagged for SPDSS calibration, AWAS cross-check, and expert review — DWR's AWAS is the authority).

SALT CREEK NEAR MOUTH BELOW PUEBLO: 67 alluvial well(s) nearby; pooled water table -0.6 ft (1934–2023, no_trend, p=0.1961). Glover screen: 0.1 cfs of nearby metered alluvial pumping → est. lagged depletion 0.1–0.1 cfs (uncalibrated T/S ranges; flagged for SPDSS calibration, AWAS cross-check, and expert review — DWR's AWAS is the authority).

Wells labeled by administrative world before anything else is said about them: tributary alluvium participates in the priority system; designated-basin and Denver Basin bedrock aquifers are governed differently and are excluded from stream-connection reasoning. Read bedrock declines differently too: deep bedrock aquifers recharge negligibly on human timescales, so a falling bedrock level is storage mining — effectively permanent — not a drought response that a wet year undoes. All screens advisory.

Topology cross-check: 2 parent disagreements, 11 sizable streams not on this network (vs DWR's route framework — under review)

This flow network was built mechanically; DWR's Source Water Route Framework disagrees with it in the places below. Each row is a question a human reviewer has not yet answered — not an error verdict. Checked 13 streams, 11 agree. Know this water? Tell us →

StreamThis site routes it toDWR routes it to
Spring Branch the mainstem Chico Creek
Galbeth Creek the mainstem Rock Creek

Sizable streams DWR maps here that this network does not carry:

Chicosa Creek (28 mi) · Kramer Creek (23 mi) · Rock Creek (21 mi) · Salt Creek (20 mi) · Haynes Creek (20 mi) · Peck Creek (18 mi) · Rush Creek (14 mi) · Boggs Creek (12 mi)

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